Kay Redfield Jamison

…Another support that you've mentioned is your family. Your husband is sitting right beside you. He helped set up the interview recording. It has been... and has been listening in the background this whole time. What is his name? Thomas Trail. How has he supported you over the years and beyond?…

…took me very seriously and I think understood that I was having a breakdown, but never said anything, but just gave me some books to read. And among them was Robert Lowell, great American poet. And his life, his courage, the complexity of his thinking and problems and his 20 hospitalizations with mania were to me, Just an extraordinary gift to my life.…

…state licenses in California in the District of Columbia, and how my colleagues would think about me, whether I'd lose my job. But the writing of An Unquiet Mind was actually very easy and very pleasurable. I've always loved reading and writing. I mean, I think I had been very fortunate when I was in high school to have a high school teacher that…