Cece Hook

“Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness