![]() She chronicled her own struggle with manic depressive illness (also called bipolar disorder) in a 1995 best-selling memoir, "An Unquiet Mind."īipolar disorder and other mental illnesses - depression, eating disorders, anxiety, suicide - are common throughout society, she said - including on college campuses. Jamison, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center, gave the talk "Personal and Professional Reflections on Mental Illness" as this year's Robert E. "Even now, I can see in my mind's rather peculiar eye an extraordinarily shadow and shifting of light inconstant but ravishing colors laid out across miles of circling rings and the almost imperceptible, somehow surprisingly pallid, moons of this Catherine wheel of a planet." ![]() This is what Jamison remembers, she said, from one of her earlier episodes of mania - when her mind took her, thrillingly, on a solo flight to the outskirts of Saturn. ![]() "So perhaps it is not surprising that as a meteorologist's daughter I found myself gliding, flying, now and again lurching through cloud banks and ethers, past stars and across fields of ice crystals." ![]() "People go mad in idiosyncratic ways," said author and psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison Sept. ![]()
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