An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and MadnessNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide. Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication. |
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... kind of treatment . Even after my con- dition became a medical emergency , I still intermit- tently resisted the medications that both my training and clinical research expertise told me were the only sensible way to deal with the ...
... kind of treatment . Even after my con- dition became a medical emergency , I still intermit- tently resisted the medications that both my training and clinical research expertise told me were the only sensible way to deal with the ...
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... kind of life I want , and the human experiences necessary to try and make a dif- ference in public awareness and clinical practice . I have had many concerns about writing a book that so explicitly describes my own attacks of mania ...
... kind of life I want , and the human experiences necessary to try and make a dif- ference in public awareness and clinical practice . I have had many concerns about writing a book that so explicitly describes my own attacks of mania ...
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... Kind , fair , and generous , she has the type of self - confidence that comes from having been brought up by parents who not only loved her deeply and well , but who were themselves kind , fair , and generous people . My grandfather ...
... Kind , fair , and generous , she has the type of self - confidence that comes from having been brought up by parents who not only loved her deeply and well , but who were themselves kind , fair , and generous people . My grandfather ...
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... kind of time and world , but they were a time and a world in which my mother looked very comfortable . There were no foreboding shadows , no pensive or melancholic faces , no questions of internal darkness or instability . Her belief ...
... kind of time and world , but they were a time and a world in which my mother looked very comfortable . There were no foreboding shadows , no pensive or melancholic faces , no questions of internal darkness or instability . Her belief ...
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... kind of animal I was dissecting and why . He talked very seriously with me about science and medicine and encouraged me to go as far as I could with my plans and dreams . He , like my father , had a deep love for natural science , and ...
... kind of animal I was dissecting and why . He talked very seriously with me about science and medicine and encouraged me to go as far as I could with my plans and dreams . He , like my father , had a deep love for natural science , and ...
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