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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

Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society's notions of what women are all about: passiv...

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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

Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, s...

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What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one...

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Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself...

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Émile DurkheimOn Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Julian had heard stories-whispers really-of other Shadowhunter children who thought or felt differen...

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She hates everything that is not what she longs for.