![]() ![]() Her research and life have lowered the stigma of mental illness. She definitely has enigmatic personal qualities that attract people to her. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness she has also experienced it firsthand. Jamison has an extensive support system and while she was reluctant to take her lithium at first, she is now very much compliant. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved liveswith a new preface by the author. I thought the book was very insightful and Dr. She also has bipolar disorder and is one of the world’s experts on the disorder. She’s a full professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. That’s a quote from the memoir An Unquiet Mind by Dr. It is, at the end of the day, the individual moments of restlessness, of bleakness, of strong persuasions and maddened enthusiasms, that inform one’s life, change the nature and direction of one’s work, and give final meaning and color to one’s loves and friendships.” There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist. ![]() And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. ![]() “I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. ![]()
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