Best quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison on Depression

Checkout quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison on Depression

• ‟ One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

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• ‟ People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

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• ‟ Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.

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• ‟ We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

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• ‟ Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

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• ‟ Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

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• ‟ Nothing good comes out of depression.

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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.

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• ‟ There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

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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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• ‟ I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

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• ‟ Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

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• ‟ Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.

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