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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... reasons of licensing and hospital privileges , reluctant to make their psychiatric problems known to others . These concerns are often well war- ranted . I have no idea what the long - term effects of dis- cussing such issues so openly ...
... reasons of licensing and hospital privileges , reluctant to make their psychiatric problems known to others . These concerns are often well war- ranted . I have no idea what the long - term effects of dis- cussing such issues so openly ...
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... reason to believe that I was anything else but passably sane , irra- tional fears began to poke away at my mind . I had a terrible temper , after all , and though it rarely erupted , when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epi ...
... reason to believe that I was anything else but passably sane , irra- tional fears began to poke away at my mind . I had a terrible temper , after all , and though it rarely erupted , when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epi ...
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... reasons . The WASP world provided a tenuous but important link with my past ; the intellectual world , however , became the sustaining part of my existence and a strong foundation for my academic future . The past was indeed the past ...
... reasons . The WASP world provided a tenuous but important link with my past ; the intellectual world , however , became the sustaining part of my existence and a strong foundation for my academic future . The past was indeed the past ...
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... reason at times , and his grandiose ideas started to push the limits of what Rand could tolerate . At one point , for example , he came up with a scheme that assigned IQ scores to hundreds of individuals , most of whom were dead . The ...
... reason at times , and his grandiose ideas started to push the limits of what Rand could tolerate . At one point , for example , he came up with a scheme that assigned IQ scores to hundreds of individuals , most of whom were dead . The ...
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