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I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...

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One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering ...

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Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is s...

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I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the q...

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Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

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

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Kay Redfield JamisonAn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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

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Kay Redfield JamisonAn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The re...

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Kay Redfield JamisonAn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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

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Kay Redfield JamisonAn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhe...

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Kay Redfield JamisonAn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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

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Kay Redfield JamisonAn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

The uncomfortable, as well as the miraculous, fact about the human mind is how it varies from indivi...

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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can ...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, e...

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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...

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