![]() ![]() 75,000 first printing Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates author tour. An Unquiet Mind: Kay Jamison Vanderbilt University 50.1K subscribers Subscribe 1.4K Share 97K views 5 years ago An Unquiet Mind: Personal and Professional Perspectives on Bipolar Disorder. She has not had children of her own and raises eloquent-unanswerable-questions about manic-depressives bearing children. ![]() The author's traumas helped drive her academic passions her work also led her to a happy marriage. During her first decade on lithium, the drug's side effects blurred her vision so that she could concentrate only on journal articles or poetry. ![]() Her first wave of mania came in high school, but college was a struggle marked by violent moods and passions, and grad school pushed her over the edge. Kay Redfield Jamison continues describing the bitter harvest she reaped by failing to take lithium for over a year and a half. The illness is often genetic, and Jamison's exuberant but depressive father was a portent. ![]() Her story suggests that, yes, with lithium as regulator, psychotherapy as sanctuary, professional support and love, manic-depressive illness can be managed. Johns Hopkins psychiatry professor Jamison, whose Touched with Fire addressed the link between manic-depressive illness and creativity, offers a poignant and powerful memoir of her own struggles with and triumphs over the disease. ![]()
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