I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, there never was anything he could say, that's the funny thing. It was all the stupid, desperately optimistic, condescending things he didn't say that kept me alive; all the compassion and wamrth I felt from him that could not have been said; all the intelligence, competence, and time he put into it; and his granite belief that mine was a life worth living. β¨ FaceBook post byKay Redfield Jamison from Oct 12, 2012
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- But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met. β¨ FaceBook post byKay Redfield Jamison from Aug 11, 2012
- Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it. β¨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, p.236, Vintage
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- The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill. β¨ Kay Redfield Jamison ( β¦ βΆ
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