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“Silver Linings Playbook” is an enthralling movie that follows a bipolar character named Pat, who after an eight-month court-mandated hospital sentence, must recuperate and improve his mental health in order to avoid going back to the hospital. Pat struggles immensely with controlling his anger, rapid thoughts, and his emotions. The movie does an excellent job at illustrating the endless personal turmoil an individual with Bipolar disorder struggles with. Additionally, the movie does a fantastic

multi-personality disorder. After Kelsey passed away, my interest in mental disorder and personality disorders grew. With that being said, I was thrilled to be assigned the reading of Kay Redfield Jamison’s experience with manic-depressive in her book An Unquiet Mind. Kay Redfield Jamison’s prologue opens with Jamison not wanting to hide her manic-depressive illness anymore and taking ownership in her experiences and making them a beautiful part of her life. I think this is courageous and hope that

holds people back from speaking about their condition. It might even cause people go into denial about even having a mental illness. Kay Redfield Jamison once struggled with accepting the fact that she was suffering from manic-depressive illness despite the fact that she was trained to make diagnoses on cases that closely resembled hers. From a young age, Jamison was intrigued by the world of science and medicine. When she was fifteen years old, she was first introduced to the world of psychiatry

Creativity and Mental Illness Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does not spring from disease of thought--from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night - Edgar Allen Poe When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time...

have a mental illness by giving them and inside look of what someone’s life is like and how they deal with their problems. The book shows how not only is life possible with mental illness but that it is also worth living. The author, Kay Redfield Jamison, grew up in a family that she did not particularly like. Her sister and brothers were a little on the crazy side when it came to being teenagers. She, on the other hand, was quite the opposite until her first mania hit at the age of seventeen

An Understanding In To the Minds of Madness Dr. Jamison the author of An Unquiet Mind, recaptures her life in the world of manic depressive disorder, later to be categorized as bipolar 1. She explains in great detail the symptoms she undergoes through her life and how they affected her everyday living. Besides the recount of her symptoms divulges how she coped and overcame the obstacles of her disorder. She also allows the reader to know the struggles she had with her treatments as she went through

The prologue of An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison opens with Kay running and is with a colleague. She explains that as a child she had multiple mood changes and how she is trying to turn her illness into a beautiful thing. In chapter 1, Kay is playing in the playground when a military jet crashes into a row of trees. Her father shows signs of manic-depression. Kay moves to California with her family where she feels that she has been taken away to a different world. By the age of 17, she has

and depression can significantly help a loved one who suffers from bipolar. Knowing what to do in these situations is key, and being supportive goes a long way. In violent situations, the bipolar individual might need to be medicated or sedated. Jamison speaks frankly about violent outbursts she’s had throughout her life and within her relationships. “Both my manias and depressions had violent sides to them. Violence, especially if you’re a woman, is not something spoken about with ease. Being wildly

“I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our nature, and of what is most dangerous” (Jamison, 1995, p.5). In “An Unquiet Mind”, Kay Redfield Jameson takes the readers through her experience dealing with manic-depression. Kay was happy and well rounded during her childhood. She developed interest for poetry, school plays, science, and medicine, and was strongly encouraged by her parents. She was surrounded with good friends, a close-knit family, and

Also known as manic depression, Bipolar disorder is characterised by episodes of mania followed by episodes of depression. “Kay Redfield Jamison [a psychologist who had bipolar disorder] did impulsive things that felt good at the time but had painful consequences like going on lavish shopping sprees, engaging in promiscuous behaviour, racking up credit card debt, and emptying her bank