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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... leaving my mother to say , " Marshall , is this really necessary ? You're egging on the children . " We would giggle approvingly , thus ensuring a few more minutes of the flight of the bumblebee . It was enchanting , really , rather ...
... leaving my mother to say , " Marshall , is this really necessary ? You're egging on the children . " We would giggle approvingly , thus ensuring a few more minutes of the flight of the bumblebee . It was enchanting , really , rather ...
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... leave late , and bring books and questions with me : What was it like to be a medical student ? To deliver babies ? To be around death ? I must have been particularly convincing about my interest on the latter point because one of the ...
... leave late , and bring books and questions with me : What was it like to be a medical student ? To deliver babies ? To be around death ? I must have been particularly convincing about my interest on the latter point because one of the ...
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... leave to go flying . Com- posure and self - restraint were not only desirable charac- teristics in a woman , they were essential . As my mother put it later , it was bad enough having to worry yourself sick every time your husband went ...
... leave to go flying . Com- posure and self - restraint were not only desirable charac- teristics in a woman , they were essential . As my mother put it later , it was bad enough having to worry yourself sick every time your husband went ...
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... indeed the past . The comfortable world of the military and Wash- ington was gone : everything had changed . My brother gone off to college before we moved to California , had leaving a large hole in my security net . My 33.
... indeed the past . The comfortable world of the military and Wash- ington was gone : everything had changed . My brother gone off to college before we moved to California , had leaving a large hole in my security net . My 33.
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A Memoir of Moods and Madness Kay Redfield Jamison. leaving a large hole in my security net . My relationship with my sister , always a difficult one , had become at best fractious , often adversarial , and , more usually , simply ...
A Memoir of Moods and Madness Kay Redfield Jamison. leaving a large hole in my security net . My relationship with my sister , always a difficult one , had become at best fractious , often adversarial , and , more usually , simply ...
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