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title: "An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Paperback – Deckle Edge, 14 January 1997"
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# An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Paperback – Deckle Edge, 14 January 1997

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Healer and healed meet
  

*by R***A on Reviewed in India on 28 December 2023*

Kay Redfield Jamison in her memoir An Unquiet Mind beautifully and precisely narrates her experiences of madness, the manic-depression or bipolar mental disorder. She would feel another 'me' within her, not able to resolve which one was the real 'Kay Redfield Jamison.' Besides distortion in the moods, this madness destroys the roots of the rational thoughts, and too often erodes desire to live.Jamison narrates that her childhood and early adolescence were full of warmth, friendship, confidence and adventure. When she was fifteen irrational fears began to poke away her mind and  cracks began to appear in her self-discipline and self-control. By the age of seventeen she was flying high. Coincidentally, her father was also taken over by depression. The secure base fell apart.Throughout her madness, Jamison's mother nurtured her with great warmth. No less caring was her brother. Her friends were also a dependable resource. This nourishment helped her to swim in the turbulent waters when she was very close to death. She always wanted a house full of children, but couldn't. There was darkness ready to weave it's way for Jamison after every triumph.A reader would enjoy the metaphysical narration of Jamison about her madness and enlightenment: "There was a neuronal pileup on the highways of my brain." During the high-flying times, Jamison found examination, laboratory work, and papers very easy. By twenty, Jamison joined research, and in quick succession got doctorate, and became professor of psychiatry in University of California. She still enjoys faculty positions at the Johns Hopkins and St. Andrews. Besides the preference for lithium, and talking cure, troubled helix, PET and MRI attracted Jamison's curiosity to understand manic-depression, her long lasting curiosity.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Best book about being bipolar.
  

*by S***I on Reviewed in India on 12 July 2018*

I read this book shortly after a suicide attempt. It is a book I really needed at the time. The book talks about using Lithium for treating mania/depression and I was on Lithium at the time.It's been four years and I still return to it occasionally. It is written with so much warmth.It gives you the perspective of a patient as well as the doctor. It does not romanticize the illness like some other works about bipolar disorder. It is written like a scientific research. That's what you would expect from a researcher like Kay.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Must read for Bipolars
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in India on 30 July 2023*

A psychiatrist Needs great guts to declare one is bipolar. This is a must read... A classic in medical literature

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