Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes About Illness

• Otros dan a entender que saben lo que es estar deprimido porque han pasado por un divorcio, han perdido un trabajo o han roto con alguien. Pero estas experiencias conllevan sentimientos. La depresión, en cambio, es plana, hueca e insoportable. ... Estás asustado, y das miedo, y 'no te pareces en nada a ti mismo pero pronto lo serás', pero sabes que no lo harás.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depresión, Trabajo, Divorcio

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). "Una mente inquieta: A memoir of moods and madness", p.133, Pan Macmillan.

• The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Play, Roles

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.84, Vintage

• La depresión maníaca distorsiona los estados de ánimo y los pensamientos, incita a comportamientos espantosos, destruye la base del pensamiento racional y, con demasiada frecuencia, erosiona el deseo y la voluntad de vivir. Es una enfermedad biológica en sus orígenes, pero psicológica en su vivencia, una enfermedad única en ventajas y placeres, pero que deja tras de sí un sufrimiento casi insoportable y, en no pocas ocasiones, el suicidio.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicidio, Único, Bipolar

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). "Una mente inquieta: A memoir of moods and madness", p.11, Pan Macmillan.

• It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is warranted. No one illness or event causes suicide; and certainly no one knows all, or perhaps even most, of the motivations behind the killing of the self. But psychopathology is almost always there, and its deadliness is fierce. Love, success, and friendship are not always enough to counter the pain and destructiveness of severe mental illness

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Pain, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Feb 18, 2013

• Creo que querer escribir es un signo fundamental de enfermedad y malestar. No creo que la gente que se siente cómoda quiera escribir.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Writing, Thinking

• Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  People, Facts, Painful

• Los chinos creen que antes de conquistar una bestia hay que hacerla bella. De alguna extraña manera, he intentado hacer eso con la enfermedad maníaco-depresiva. Ha sido una enemiga y compañera fascinante, aunque mortal; me ha parecido seductoramente complicada, una destilación tanto de lo mejor de nuestra naturaleza como de lo más peligroso.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Hermoso, Creer, Chino

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). "Una mente inquieta: A memoir of moods and madness", p.10, Pan Macmillan.

• I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Emotional, Years, Bipolar

• A menudo me he preguntado si, pudiendo elegir, elegiría tener una enfermedad maníaco-depresiva. Si el litio no estuviera a mi disposición, o no me funcionara, la respuesta sería un simple no... y sería una respuesta cargada de terror. Pero el litio me funciona, y por tanto puedo permitirme plantear la pregunta. Por extraño que parezca, creo que elegiría tenerlo. Es complicado.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Simple, Pensamiento, Elecciones

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). "Una mente inquieta: A memoir of moods and madness", p.133, Pan Macmillan.

• the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Giving Up, Believe

• ¿Quién no desearía una enfermedad que tiene entre sus síntomas un estado de ánimo elevado y expansivo, autoestima inflada, abundancia de energía, menor necesidad de sueño, sexualidad intensificada y -lo más relevante para nuestro argumento aquí- "pensamiento agudo e inusualmente creativo" y "aumento de la productividad"?

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Self Esteem, Sleep, Thinking

  Kay Redfield Jamison (1996). “Touched With Fire”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

• I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

• Cualquiera que haya tenido que enfrentarse a una enfermedad mental -ya sea depresión, enfermedad bipolar o ansiedad grave, lo que sea- tiene en realidad una buena dosis de resiliencia en el sentido de que ya ha tenido que enfrentarse al sufrimiento, al sufrimiento personal.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Ansiedad, Bipolaridad, Resiliencia

  "Kay Redfield Jamison - Un profundo amor y pérdida". "All In The Mind" con Natasha Mitchell, www.abc.net.au. 15 de enero de 2011.

• Demasiados médicos -muchos de ellos excelentes- se suicidan cada año; un estudio reciente concluía que, hasta hace muy poco, Estados Unidos perdía anualmente el equivalente a una clase de medicina de tamaño medio sólo por suicidio. La mayoría de los suicidios de médicos se deben a depresión o enfermedad maníaco-depresiva, ambas eminentemente tratables. Desgraciadamente, los médicos no sólo padecen un mayor índice de trastornos del estado de ánimo que la población general, sino que también tienen un mayor acceso a medios de suicidio muy eficaces.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicidio, Media, Escuela

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). "Una mente inquieta: A memoir of moods and madness", p.127, Pan Macmillan.

• But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete: mania is not a luxury one can easily afford. It is devastating to have the illness and aggravating to have to pay for medications, blood tests, and psychotherapy. They, at least, are partially deductible. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Loss, Luxury

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.40, Oxford University Press

• Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Moving, Reality, Mind

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.67, Vintage

• If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Cancer, People, Disease

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

• 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

  Psychosis, Violence, Illness

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

• I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, Thinking, Awareness

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

• Tomas conciencia de una enfermedad comprendiéndote a ti mismo y comprendiendo el significado que esa enfermedad tiene en tu propia vida, simbólica y, lo que es más importante, literalmente.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Understanding, Illness, Understanding Yourself

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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