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“I never again looked at the sky and saw only vastness and beauty. From that afternoon on I saw that death was also and always there.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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“They used to treat sheep carcasses with Lithium so if the Coyotes went after the herd and bit on the treated carcasses, the got so sick they kept their teeth to themselves.”
― Kay Jamison

tags: autobiographical-mental-health

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“Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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“You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but you will be soon,' but you know you won't.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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“Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

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