There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror inv…

Kay Redfield Jamison
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, p.45, Pan Macmillan
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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