Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir Of Moods And Madness Quotes

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.