Kay Redfield Jamison quote: "One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest."

There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most im...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current s...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rati...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect ...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, e...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's de...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great t...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make peopl...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool a...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psych...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned fr...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depressio...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize ...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to hav...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionat...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very iso...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you lo...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that ...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of ...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence ...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of a...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, stran...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forc...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and th...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

الشعور بأنك طبيعي لأي فترة طويلة ممتدة يعطيك آمالًا يت�...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I read it as if it had been written by someone else, although it was my own experience being recount...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

كان علىّ أن أحاول أن أوفق بين فكرتي عن نفسي كإنسانة تتك�...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, f...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to ...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from som...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

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...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior aware...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came dow...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Thank you for a lovely weekend.
They tell me it rained.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general pop...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that ill...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

Intense creative episodes are, in many instances, indistinguishable from hypomania
KAY JAMISON

What then after the medications, psychiatrist, despair, depression, and overdose? All those incredib...
KAY JAMISON

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness...
KAY JAMISON

When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on somethin...
JAMES REDFIELD

When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people ...
JAMES REDFIELD

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no s...
JAMES REDFIELD

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided t...
JAMES REDFIELD

One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discernin...
JAMES REDFIELD

What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddenin...
JAMES REDFIELD

I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up...
JAMES REDFIELD

We played a good second quarter. We had balanced scoring and a lot of guys contributed.
CHRIS REDFIELD

I was pleased with our defensive effort tonight. We played well all around tonight and we'll need to...
CHRIS REDFIELD

We've only won one game where we gave up over 60 points. That was our barometer this season. If we g...
CHRIS REDFIELD

The tempo of the game wasn't in our favor.
CHRIS REDFIELD

How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related ...
JAMES REDFIELD

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions......
JAMES REDFIELD

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of medi...
JAMES REDFIELD

...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.
JAMES REDFIELD

It seems like the manufacturing sector is picking up steam. It's a strong number, but there are a co...
COREY REDFIELD

One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. No...
JAMES REDFIELD

This is [her] soul group.’
What do you mean?’
It’s a group of souls with whom she re...
JAMES REDFIELD

I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who cro...
JAMES REDFIELD

If anyone was still expecting a Fed rate cut before, they're certainly going to throw that out the w...
COREY REDFIELD

While this is a second-tier economic number, this just shows how robust the housing sector is and th...
COREY REDFIELD

I think we all can identify with the journey of the main character (John) as he takes steps for deep...
JAMES REDFIELD

It is happening now. All religions attempt to institute spiritual sensibility. The real spirituality...
JAMES REDFIELD

One thing we did to remedy the high prices, we bought these Scions, which are better on gas,
JAMES REDFIELD

It's really affecting us,
JAMES REDFIELD

...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malle...
JAMES REDFIELD

Planinski vrhunci su posebna mjesta koja mogu dati energiju svakome tko boravi na njima.
JAMES REDFIELD

Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.
JAMES REDFIELD

The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them.
JAMES REDFIELD

I didn't start a Celestine movement.
JAMES REDFIELD

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.
JAMES REDFIELD

I believe God has a path for me. He's always had a path for me, and I've always been in the ...
JUDITH JAMISON

The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It'...
JUDITH JAMISON

The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular du...
LESLIE JAMISON

Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the san...
KALEEL JAMISON

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.
JUDITH JAMISON

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it?...
JUDITH JAMISON

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do...
LESLIE JAMISON

As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving y...
JUDITH JAMISON

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class...
JUDITH JAMISON

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how ...
JUDITH JAMISON

Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings...
LESLIE JAMISON

I don't see myself as a guy coming off the bench. But we won tonight, so even though I was coming of...
ANTAWN JAMISON

I know a lot of people will say we're in the entertainment industry, but we represent franchises tha...
ANTAWN JAMISON

If we had lost this kind of game about a month or two ago, this room would have been awful. This is ...
ANTAWN JAMISON

We know what Juan is capable of doing when he starts to feel it. We know he is going to be in the mi...
ANTAWN JAMISON

I can recall my rookie year when I was like a deer in the headlights, so I know it's hard for him. B...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Tonight was one of those nights when we were short-handed.
ANTAWN JAMISON

The one thing that could make this thing go in the right direction is to get a couple games early. W...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Offensively, I don't know what we were doing. They did a good job of staying poised.
ANTAWN JAMISON

He's done everything that you ask an All-Star to do. It was definitely disappointing for his peers n...
ANTAWN JAMISON

We have to give a better showing than that, ... I'm not worried about the offense. We know we can sc...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, ...
LESLIE JAMISON

I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not...
JUDITH JAMISON

I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.
JUDITH JAMISON

I would interpret it as circumventing the ordinance. The public is entitled to that information, I t...
BOB JAMISON

I basically considered it a long time ago. I told Dave that if he ran I wouldn't.
BOB JAMISON

Sioux Falls needs my experience and leadership now.
BOB JAMISON

However, I'm not the one that asked for the opinion. That would be the person who needs to withdraw ...
BOB JAMISON

I'm not sure whether proceeding will solve anything.
BOB JAMISON

Specifically some of them are going to have a sizeable bill approaching $20,000 to put in the sidewa...
BOB JAMISON

Someday it will have to occur, the more we (expand) into counties. The real justification for a metr...
BOB JAMISON

If you are out there, you have fans. You have a champion. Organize these champions. You probably kno...
JAMISON STAFFORD

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to...
LESLIE JAMISON

That helped me get into a rhythm.
ANTAWN JAMISON

I knew I had to do something but I got into a rhythm.
ANTAWN JAMISON

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I ...
JUDITH JAMISON

It's hard, but everybody goes through it with the exception of Detroit, who hasn't had any injuries....
ANTAWN JAMISON

Gilbert told me going into the second half, 'You can't do anything if you don't let it ride,'? He sh...
ANTAWN JAMISON

People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how ...
JUDITH JAMISON

My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a...
JUDITH JAMISON

It's constantly changing. It's the most elusive population (to count) because, again, they're homele...
DAVID JAMISON

We've counted again a couple of more times in sort of an unofficial way and come up with more than t...
DAVID JAMISON

You don't think people care, but something like this happens and you find out they do.
ANTHONY JAMISON

I'm still proud of the girls for taking us this far. They worked hard, and that hard work paid off f...
ANTHONY JAMISON

It's hard to beat them at whatever level we meet them at. We were hoping that since we got past area...
ANTHONY JAMISON

That was one of our goals at the beginning of the season.
ANTHONY JAMISON

They were in a rhythm tonight and we couldn't get them out of it. They made it tough for us the whol...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Sometimes you do have a lot of minutes, but it's crunch time. We know when we're out there we give o...
ANTAWN JAMISON

It's always good to play so well when you have the family and friends come out and see you play. It'...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Let's face it - when myself, Gilbert and Caron step up, we play a lot better as a team.
ANTAWN JAMISON

I'd be all for it. I know that's up to management, not us. But we might have to bring him back. We d...
ANTAWN JAMISON

It was very expensive to go there.
BERNICE JAMISON

She said her heart had been broken into 10,000 little pieces. She said she loved me like a mother. W...
BERNICE JAMISON

She found out he was two-timing on her. She told me some time ago she was going to kill him. I wasn'...
BERNICE JAMISON

I’m in the habit of employing either sharks or mice.
ERIN JAMISON

Now I have my pep in my step. I have that swagger. I feel like myself again. I'm just playing hard. ...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Nessa held her arm up. She was staring at it, trying to gauge how big that was. “Dude, that’s as...
ERIN JAMISON

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights complete...
JUDITH JAMISON

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio ...
JUDITH JAMISON

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, tha...
JUDITH JAMISON

All of the great ones have gone through it. You can't let a guy pick you apart and not be aggressive...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Everybody knows Gilbert. We don't understand how it's possible (for him to be omitted). But it happe...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Oh yeah, ... Playoffs for sure. We could definitely make a lot of noise. We could make a run to win ...
ANTAWN JAMISON

It's always good to have my family and friends come see me play.
ANTAWN JAMISON

I think everybody is stepping up their play because they know the importance of these next 20 games....
ANTAWN JAMISON

We just took care of business.
ANTAWN JAMISON

Defensively, we've got to make it tough on them. They're one of the best scoring teams in the league...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. P...
LESLIE JAMISON

I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to s...
JUDITH JAMISON

I knew it was good. I had the adrenaline going and I was feeling it. I didn't hesitate.
ANTAWN JAMISON

You've just got to find a way to win with the situation. [Dealing with the injuries] has been hard b...
ANTAWN JAMISON

We would get down, find a way to get close or take the lead, and they'd come on a nice big run. Thos...
ANTAWN JAMISON

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it?...
JUDITH JAMISON

My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'L...
JUDITH JAMISON

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayl...
JUDITH JAMISON

Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn...
JUDITH JAMISON

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and e...
LESLIE JAMISON

It's right there at your fingertips, anytime you want it. We have our genes being given this feast. ...
DEAN JAMISON

You do not need to have much in the way of resources to acquire good health at a national level. If ...
DEAN JAMISON

Money doesn't necessarily buy health. But today good health is clearly possible at low cost.
DEAN JAMISON

Now that we have a base statistic in front of us, we have to go to work and do the hard work of orga...
DAVID JAMISON

I don't think we can ever give up on individuals. I believe everyone is worthy in the sight of our L...
DAVID JAMISON

Future land use is going to take some discussion. I think that's going to be the major obstacle at t...
DAVE JAMISON

We are on a collision course. The borough is coming this way.
DAVE JAMISON

I had no idea they would attack the boards so much. Offensive boards killed us and that usually does...
DAVE JAMISON

People look at our size and our talent and expect our young guys to play like seniors. They are stil...
DAVE JAMISON

Both teams made plays. When they had to make shots, they clutched up and hit 'em.
DAVE JAMISON

We fouled guys we thought were going to miss and they clutched up and hit them.
DAVE JAMISON

He's one of our captains as a sophomore and he's tough as heck and has a lot of courage. I'm real ha...
DAVE JAMISON

We've got some things to talk about still, but I hope so.
DAVE JAMISON

We talked it all out. I thought it would be best if he didn't play today.
DAVE JAMISON

I've never seen anything like that before.
DAVE JAMISON

That would be useful information so we could judge whether the sensitivity programs that the law-enf...
DANICA JAMISON

This is the only way to measure whether the policies and programs that we have in place now are effe...
DANICA JAMISON

There's a lot of confusion about what data collection means and why we're asking for it.
DANICA JAMISON

You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone fa...
LESLIE JAMISON

It's a wonderful feeling to have the opportunity make that team. It's something not a lot of players...
ANTAWN JAMISON

He always brings his 'A' game against us. He plays well every night, but he has had some spectacular...
ANTAWN JAMISON

It's closer to home, so my family can come see me play.
JAMES JAMISON

All our clothes, and everything else, all our groceries, and all that, everything was in here that w...
JAMES JAMISON

She hollered, 'I can't get out!' I said, 'Don't worry, baby, I'm gonna get you out.' And I got her o...
JAMES JAMISON

I just started to run a hundred percent. It feels great to get a win for Chris (Smith).
JAMES JAMISON

We will have a huge amount of antique odds and ends that we will rotate through the display cases li...
JAMES JAMISON

There is a definite distinction between membership with the club and membership with the museum, ......
JAMES JAMISON

There is a huge interest in antique automobiles everywhere across the country, ... This is the only ...
JAMES JAMISON

We've been working hard, ... Everybody wants to play their hardest every game and get a state title ...
JAMES JAMISON

It's been a really tough time, ... I talked to him about 7 the morning before and things were OK. We...
JAMES JAMISON

It's my job to distribute (the ball). She has to be one of the main scorers.
LINDSAY JAMISON

It's a mood piece about love and relationship, like a slice- of life- pie at 2 a.m. with episodes ...
JUDITH JAMISON

As a dancer, he was quicksilver. He moved like a cat.
JUDITH JAMISON

Don't call me a star. Call me a dancer.
JUDITH JAMISON

and they leave the theatre changed.
JUDITH JAMISON

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
JUDITH JAMISON

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledge...
JUDITH JAMISON

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's har...
JUDITH JAMISON

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

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One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

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