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    Kay Redfield Jamison is a Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, however she did not achieve this level of success easily. In Jamison’s novel, An Unquiet Mind, she writes about her life and her battle with manic-depressive illness, revealing how someone’s life is impacted by a psychological disorder. Her novel revolves around her ailment and the situations she encounters along the way of her journey, such as attempting to commit suicide, suffering from deep depressions

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    An Unquiet Mind By Kay Redfield Jamison

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    This Quicksilver Illness: Moods, Stigma, and Creativity A review of An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison Kay Jamison is one of the faces of manic depression (or in more sterile terms, bipolar disorder). She is currently the face of one of the renowned researchers of manic depression and topics relating to the disease, ranging from suicide to creativity. She is a tenured professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, author of a best-selling memoir and one of the standard

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    Kay Redfield Jamison was born on June 22, 1946 in the United States of America. She received her Bachelors and Masters in the University of California, also known as UCLA. After accomplishing these goals, she set out to acquire her Ph.D., which she did, also at UCLA in the year 1975. UCLA is significant for a number of reasons. Upon completing her degrees, she began to work there as an assistant professor and then rose to the rank of associate professor. Though she was an associate professor of psychiatry

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    Kay Redfield Jamison, an American clinical psychiatrist, and now writer, who published An Unquiet Mind, had published over 100 academic articles, and chosen by Time magazine as “The Hero of Medicine” (O’Byrne, 1997). She was and still is an incredibly successful women. Jamison has not always felt that to be true. Jamison, who has been diagnosed with manic depressive disorder since she was in high school, but had not really experienced any severe episodes of either mania or depression. Her father

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    An Unquiet Mind Kay Redfield Jamison, an American clinical psychologist and author published one of her books An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness in 1995. The book, as the title describes, is an emotionally moving memoir of emotions. Jamison has had bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness, since her young adulthood and An Unquiet Mind unapologetically takes readers through the roller coaster of which is her life. Albeit bipolar disorder is hard to understand without having it, this

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    professionals to assess and assist in diagnosing individuals with various symptoms that meet the criteria of a diagnosis. So many people deal with the symptoms of mental illness and never are able to tell their story. In An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison, she recounts her struggles with bipolar disorder and manic depression. She struggled with her disease for a number of years and it was uplifting on how she was finally able to come to terms with her illness and be able to manage it. When you

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    diagnosed with it. I wanted to understand it better but found that the jargon and detached observations of psychiatric theory and practice that you can find on the internet didn’t really help me to understand what people actually go through. Kay Redfield Jamison’s ‘An Unquiet Mind’ manages to cut through all that to create a fiery, passionate, authentic account of the psychotic experience and introduce you to that facts of the illness without you even realizing it. Kay Jamison’s story is proof that

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    this process she would constantly have thoughts of suicide. Key Redfield decided to talk to Charles Lachenmeyer and wanted to know more about schizophrenia because she was writing a book on mantel illness, it was her way to cope with her mantel illness, bipolar. They only difference she finished her degree and stick to being a doctor, unlike Charles she wondered why so she interviewed him. Conversation: Key Redfield: Hi my name is key how are you feeling today? Charles Lachenmeyer: Hi key

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    In Marbles, Ellen Forney shares the story of an artist’s struggle with the effects of bipolar disorder on her abilities. Initially afraid of confronting the possibility that choosing to control her condition may extinguish her creativity, Forney chooses to isolate her experience from those of others. This fear and the resulting loneliness being unsustainable, Forney eventually makes the decision to explore the work of others and finds comfort in their experiences. Ultimately, she constructs her own

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    suffering from the disease hold back our efforts to progress with treatments and move positively with mental health. Dr. Kay Jamison was a senior in high school when she began experiencing the attacks that came along with manic-depressive disorder. It started with a manic phase in what she would describe as “hundreds of subsequent periods of high enthusiasm”, (Jamison, p. 37 ). As her mania phase leveled down, the depressive portion of the illness took its place. Feelings of fatigue, agitation

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