“The depressive brain is obsessive, ruminative, and highly self-critical,” Jamison said.

She writes about experiencing bipolar disorder in her book, detailing her wonderful bursts of imaginative projects as well as the debilitating depressions that punctuated these thrills. Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, visited the Santa Barbara Central Library last week to address positive solutions. That said, what can be done to quell the destructive consequences that can arise from unmanaged illness?

Studies have shown correlations between mental illness, genealogy, and creativity.

Mark Rothko famously painted a black canvas before he committed suicide Whitney Houston battled mental illness until her death. OL2910908W Page_number_confidence 88.83 Pages 246 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210809103459 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 263 Scandate 20210804074737 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780679763307 Tts_version 4.Madness and artistry have long been firmly held tropes in the arts. The wild blue yonder - A not so fine madness - This medicine, love - An unquiet mindĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:00:48 Boxid IA40202909 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the 'melancholy star of the imagination,' and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life.

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