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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison
from Vintage

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Too cerebral and tedious
  Right from the start, I did not find this book engaging. Unlike The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness which I have recently read and in which your heart absolutely breaks for the author, Ms. Jamison tends to recount her experiences with the cold, clinical eye of science, rather than expressing in what way her illness affects her feelings.
  This book reads like a thesis paper. Ms. Jamison "reports" on her illness, with no emotion behind the words. Even as she talks about the death of... more info

• An Unquiet Mind
  Kay Redfield Jamison's personal account of suffering from the relentless manic-depressive illness is extremely powerful. Jamison uses unique storytelling techniques to display the disorder in a very accurate light. What may initially seem monotonously repetitive turns out to be Jamison's use of the cycles of repetition in the portrayal of the true nature of manic-depression. Without pausing to think, readers may find the vicious cycle--depression, lithium, stop lithium, depression--to represent a boring... more info

• Kay Jamisons credentials
  I'd just like to correct something is one of the reviews.
  Kay Jamison is not a psychiatrist. She is a psychologist who heads a psychiatric department. If you have read this book, you know that.
  I've read over a dozen books on Bipolar Disorder. Being Bipolar myself, I really felt a kinship with Kay. My family also read this book and tell me that they now have a better understanding of my illness.
  A very good book.
  

• Really Helps to Understand
  Like others, I came away from this book with a far greater understanding, and more sympathetic view of those people in my life who suffer with manic-depression. I have good friends and cousins who wrestle with this disease, and though I tried to empathize, of course I couldn't.
  The one question I have, though, is that I thought people with manic depression who are on lithium should NOT drink alcohol? Certainly, the good doctor doesn't sound like an alcoholic, but there's plenty of mention of... more info

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