Kay Redfield Jamison

Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamisonis an American clinical psychologist and writer. Her work has centered on bipolar disorder, which she has had since her early adulthood. She holds a post of Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of St Andrews...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth22 June 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)
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With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.
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Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance is a major problem. Patients believe that once they're better, they no longer need the medication. It doesn't work that way.
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Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.
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There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.
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In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
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We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
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'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
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I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
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Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.
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An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.
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It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.
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It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on college campuses is exactly that reason. It's terribly important to talk to students about knowing these things in advance.
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I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.