Tag: Kay Jamison

Bipolar Symptoms, Mental Health Advocacy, suicide

“…the only alternatives are death and insanity…” -KRJ

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“…the only alternatives are death and insanity…” -KRJ

  "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, and that freedom from the control imposed by medication loses its meaning when the only alternatives are death and insanity."   -Kay Redfield Jamison An [...]

books, mania, Mental Health Advocacy

“Before you can conquer a beast, you first must make it beautiful” -KRJ

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“Before you can conquer a beast, you first must make it beautiful” -KRJ

"The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.   In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness.   It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion;   I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what [...]