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| 5e39ed8 | Naquela noite, enquanto esperava (bordando, vendo a neve cair, ouvindo Chopin e Elgar) que meu ingles apaixonado e instavel aparecesse, eu de repente me conscientizei de como a musica me parecia clara e tocante; como era de uma beleza extrema e melancolica o fato de eu observar a neve e esperar por ele. Eu estava sentindo mais beleza, mas tambem mais tristeza de verdade. Quando ele surgiu - elegante, acabando de chegar de um jantar de cerim.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 8fef797 | But, ineffably, psychotherapy heals. It makes some sense of the confusion, reins in the terrifying thoughts and feelings, returns some control and hope and possibility of learning from it all. Pills cannot, do not, ease one back into reality; they only bring one back headlong, careening, and faster than can be endured at times. Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confuse.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 7c6cdfa | But it has been precisely that persevering steadiness of my mother, her belief in seeing things through, and her great ability to love and learn, listen and change, that helped keep me alive through all of the years of pain and nightmare that were to come. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| c994ffa | I was one of many who owed their lives to the black circles and squares in Schou's family tree. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| deba1e8 | As his psychotherapist for years, I had been privy to his dreams and fears, hopeful and then ruined relationships, grandiose and then shattered plans for the future. I had seen his remarkable resilience, personal courage, and wit; I liked and respected him enormously. But I also had been increasingly frustrated by his repeated refusals to take medication. I could, from my own experience, understand his concerns about taking lithium, but onl.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| e6519f5 | Humor and absorption on friends'faces are replaced by fear and concern. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 24dd421 | He was a psychiatrist, as well as a warm, whimsical, and witty man who had a mind like a cluttered attic. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| feb4681 | Fire, by its nature, both creates and destroys. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 2cedd9e | For someone with my cast of mind and mood, medication is an integral element of this wall: without it, I would be constantly beholden to the crushing movements of a mental sea; I would, unquestionably, be dead or insane. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| d7566ec | Far too many doctors--many of them excellent physicians--commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the equivalent of a medium-sized medical school class from suicide alone. Most physician suicides are due to depression or manic-depressive illness, both of which are eminently treatable. Physicians, unfortunately, not only suffer from a higher rate of mood disorders than t.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 8d6c8c0 | I had gotten a Ph.D., and I was beginning to understand Bob Dylans lines "Twenty years of schoolin' and they put you on the day shift." | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 0efdbbf | Do we risk making the world a blander, more homogenized place if we get rid of the genes for manic-depressive illness | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 9a4c61f | before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 224234f | Much like crossing the Bay Bridge when there is a storm over the Chesapeake, one may be terrified to go forward, but there is no question of going back. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| a62efad | You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 82b043d | This polarization of two clinical states flies in the face of everything that we know about the cauldronous, fluctuating nature of manic-depressive illness; it ignores the question of whether mania is, ultimately, simply an extreme form of depression; and it minimizes the importance of mixed manic-and-depressive states, conditions that are common, extremely important clinically, and lie at the heart of many of the critical theoretical issue.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 89a1d2b | for manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 248d60d | Far more important, they took me and my interests very seriously. They never tried to discourage me from becoming a doctor, even though it was an era that breathed, If woman, be a nurse. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 068a40f | I focused on the questions and stopped seeing the body. As has been true a thousand times since, my curiosity and temperament had taken me to places I was not really able to handle emotionally, but the same curiosity, and the scientific side of my mind, generated enough distance and structure to allow me to manage, deflect, reflect, and move on. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| c44f1ac | It would be impossible for me to convince you that the gray square labeled A is identical in brightness to the square labeled B. | Keith Payne | ||
| d22e147 | Rachel lay in bed, staring at a ceiling she couldn't see in the darkness. Her brother, Jonathan, was a few feet away; his breathing, regular and deep. | Keith Nixon | ||
| 52e8bb9 | I for many years after my initial diagnosis was reluctant to take my medications as prescribed. Why was I so unwilling? Why did it take having to go through more episodes of mania, followed by long suicidal depressions, before I would take lithium in a medically sensible way? Some of my reluctance, no doubt, stemmed from a fundamental denial that what I had was a real disease. This is a common reaction that follows, rather counter-intuitive.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 02ad167 | high altitude coupled with rigorous exercise can raise lithium levels. I became completely disoriented and totally incapable of navigating my way down the mountain. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 1bc25a1 | Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 18044e6 | because the California commitment code is designed more for the well-being of lawyers than of patients, it would have been relatively easy for me to talk my way out of an involuntary commitment. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 0a527d5 | we are not guiltlessof the history in the mirror | Bei Dao | ||
| 7b16411 | Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. Antidepressants might be indicated for psychiatric patients, for those of weaker stock, but not for us. It was a costly attitude; our upbringing and pride held us hostage. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 7f3b71c | The endless questioning finally ended. My psychiatrist looked at me, there was no uncertainty in his voice. "Manic-depressive illness." I admired his bluntness. I wished him locusts on his lands and a pox upon his house. Silent, unbelievable rage. I smiled pleasantly. He smiled back. The war had just begun." | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 5888ffe | The humor, however, was a bit more in the recounting than in the actual living through it. Unfortunately, this resistance to taking lithium is played out in the lives of tens of thousands of patients every year. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 610cd66 | No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable. Madness, on the other hand, most certainly can, and often does, kill love through its mistrustfulness, unrelenting pessimism, discontents, erratic behavior, and, especially, through its savage moods. The | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 9f94b51 | When I had asked why they were taking English, a boy said: "To help us in real life." | Bel Kaufman | ||
| ada7abd | Let me tell you the tale of a poet who hanged himself with promises. . . . | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 1161a03 | Let every government see to it that each child is implanted with the tools it needs to communicate, calculate, and process data. Let each government make sure that rich and poor alike, dirtborn and outworlder, Terran and Variant, all have equal access to the outernet and its resources. Let them do that, and we will see something the galaxy has never seen before: a time of true equality, unequaled prosperity, and the kind of conceptual innov.. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| b9fa0a8 | The more I think about it, the more it frightens me." "So why are you getting involved?" He shut his eyes. "So I can look at myself in the mirror again. And know that I did my best." | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 36c875a | Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 2ce2ac0 | I was aesthetically impressed but failed to understand the importance of it. Unfortunately, Braxana do not express ignorance; therefore I couldn't ask, "What is it?" as directly as I would have liked. After a moment I looked up at him, the elevation of one eyebrow indicating that I was intrigued enough to hear what he had come to say." | C.S. Friedman | ||
| e19c3cd | What is true genius, if not the perfect balance of inspiration and perseverence? CHEULGU KIM Ancient Truths for a New Age | C.S. Friedman | ||
| e36ebe8 | To Kaimera Lord Zatar, Zarvati, son of Vinir and K'siva From the Elders of the Holding The Elders respectfully remind you that it is required of each purebred Braxana male that he sire four registered purebred children during his lifetime. While we recognize that you are still young in age, your involvement in the War forces us to consider the possibility that you may not enjoy the full life expectancy of the Braxana. Therefore we urge yo.. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| dc97e46 | When I truly accept something, I am no longer invested in making it different. I may still share my opinion. I may even indicate that I would prefer things to be otherwise, but I don't become invested in trying to make it so. There's more of a lightness. I recognize that the world, including my partner, does not exist for my pleasure and convenience. My partner is not me. The more we can embrace the whole package, the more loving we can be... | Gregg Krech | ||
| 3666938 | She crept across the room, avoiding the squeaky floorboard. She almost made it. The door was half open when her father said, | Keith Nixon | ||
| dec1e91 | Connecting to the outernet was less of a shock this time, as the monitor gave him a sense of distance from it, but it was still annoying. How did these people live with such a system, stalked by advertisements and "free" offers and icons that would take you to another site, unasked-for, the moment you gave them your attention? It was like wending your way through an obstacle course. Perhaps after a while you just learned to tune it all out... | communication cyberpunk internet marketing | C.S. Friedman | |
| a54f090 | Amazing, is it not, that in the face of death we hunger for distraction, and are wont to focus on other things, trivial things, as a means of not acknowledging our danger.... | C.S. Friedman | ||
| db17942 | In Memory of Those Who Died Waiting for the Bell | Bel Kaufman | ||
| 55d9e7d | Anzha was trapped in someone else's dream. Such a thing didn't happen often, but it happened. Intensity of emotion meant intensity of contact; in the close confines of the Institute, where hundreds of psychics lived, worked, and trained together, it was to be expected that occasionally two dreamers would come insync (as the Institute termed it) and share the same sleep-bound fantasies. The | C.S. Friedman |