Kay Redfield Jamison

And it will tend to get worse over time if it's left untreated and much harder to treat. When I'm teaching residents at Johns Hopkins, I always emphasize that's the art and science of treating mood disorders. It's just they're complicated. There are huge feelings involved and denial and hopelessness. So the very thing that you need to get better, which is your brain, is making you hopeless.

And it will tend to get worse over time if it's left untreated and much harder to treat. When I'm teaching residents at Johns Hopkins, I always emphasize that's the art and science of treating mood disorders. It's just they're complicated. There are huge feelings involved and denial and hopelessness. So the very thing that you need to get better, which is your brain, is making you hopeless.

And so I think you need to educate patients. family members to the extent that you can get families in to talk about what's going on, what kind of questions, what kind of plans should be made if somebody gets manic or somebody gets depressed or somebody gets suicidal. I mean, there are all sorts of things that you can do just by being straightforward and educated yourself as a clinician.

And so I think you need to educate patients. family members to the extent that you can get families in to talk about what's going on, what kind of questions, what kind of plans should be made if somebody gets manic or somebody gets depressed or somebody gets suicidal. I mean, there are all sorts of things that you can do just by being straightforward and educated yourself as a clinician.

And so I think you need to educate patients. family members to the extent that you can get families in to talk about what's going on, what kind of questions, what kind of plans should be made if somebody gets manic or somebody gets depressed or somebody gets suicidal. I mean, there are all sorts of things that you can do just by being straightforward and educated yourself as a clinician.

For sure. You don't want to... consider happiness and joy to be a symptom of psychopathology, you know? Right. You want to go through life with a full range of emotions. One of the things that people do, my colleague at UCLA, David Miklos, does with adolescents, for example, is to and their family members, is to make people more aware of when their moods are getting up.

For sure. You don't want to... consider happiness and joy to be a symptom of psychopathology, you know? Right. You want to go through life with a full range of emotions. One of the things that people do, my colleague at UCLA, David Miklos, does with adolescents, for example, is to and their family members, is to make people more aware of when their moods are getting up.

For sure. You don't want to... consider happiness and joy to be a symptom of psychopathology, you know? Right. You want to go through life with a full range of emotions. One of the things that people do, my colleague at UCLA, David Miklos, does with adolescents, for example, is to and their family members, is to make people more aware of when their moods are getting up.

So if somebody's starting to buy more things, or somebody's staying up too late, or somebody's starting to clean the house, which is a very common sort of thing. The earlier you can catch mania, incipient mania, the easier it is to treat, and the less damage and harm

So if somebody's starting to buy more things, or somebody's staying up too late, or somebody's starting to clean the house, which is a very common sort of thing. The earlier you can catch mania, incipient mania, the easier it is to treat, and the less damage and harm

So if somebody's starting to buy more things, or somebody's staying up too late, or somebody's starting to clean the house, which is a very common sort of thing. The earlier you can catch mania, incipient mania, the easier it is to treat, and the less damage and harm

Well, I think writing 1,400 pages of very fine, double-columned textbook, it was very therapeutic in many respects to just find out what's known in the field and what's not known. But when I decided to write about my own experience, I was terrified for a lot of obvious and a lot of not-so-obvious reasons. I was very concerned about my...

Well, I think writing 1,400 pages of very fine, double-columned textbook, it was very therapeutic in many respects to just find out what's known in the field and what's not known. But when I decided to write about my own experience, I was terrified for a lot of obvious and a lot of not-so-obvious reasons. I was very concerned about my...

Well, I think writing 1,400 pages of very fine, double-columned textbook, it was very therapeutic in many respects to just find out what's known in the field and what's not known. But when I decided to write about my own experience, I was terrified for a lot of obvious and a lot of not-so-obvious reasons. I was very concerned about my...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.