Kay Redfield Jamison Moving Quotations

Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had no idea how I felt, although they were certain that they did. Over and over and over I would say to myself, If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

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.

Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.

We all move uneasily within our restraints.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?