Kay Redfield Jamison

The memoir, An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison is a provocative story of the struggles of living with manic-depressive (bipolar) disorder. Jamison grew up in a military family, so she moved every few years. One day, while on the playground with her friends, she witnessed a plane crash. The fiery scene was her first introduction to death. Despite the unpredictability in her life, her parents worked hard to make her life as secure and constant as possible. Her father started to showcase signs

professionals to assess and assist in diagnosing individuals with various symptoms that meet the criteria of a diagnosis. So many people deal with the symptoms of mental illness and never are able to tell their story. In An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison, she recounts her struggles with bipolar disorder and manic depression. She struggled with her disease for a number of years and it was uplifting on how she was finally able to come to terms with her illness and be able to manage it. When you

Bipolar Disorder Give a phenomenological/subjective (first person account) description of Kay Redfield Jamison’s bipolar disorder as described in her book “Unquiet Mind.” In particular, what factors did she view as helpful in her recovery? Kay Redfield Jamison reports that her manic depressive illness was a gradual progression wherein she found her mind and life accelerated. In the summer of July 1974, Jamison became a member of the psychiatric faculty at UCLA. Jamison’s newfound responsibilities

that results from her fear of losing her creativity. After her diagnosis, Forney characterizes herself as a “rock star” cheerfully eating an energy bar and casually tossing Klonopin into her mouth (28). With the same carelessness, she begins reading Kay Jamison’s memoir, a story by a psychologist who suffers from the same disorder as she. Here, Forney’s face shows a dismissive skepticism, betraying her adamant refusal to let her disorder “dictate everything in [her] life” (27-28). Her reasons for this

this process she would constantly have thoughts of suicide. Key Redfield decided to talk to Charles Lachenmeyer and wanted to know more about schizophrenia because she was writing a book on mantel illness, it was her way to cope with her mantel illness, bipolar. They only difference she finished her degree and stick to being a doctor, unlike Charles she wondered why so she interviewed him. Conversation: Key Redfield: Hi my name is key how are you feeling today? Charles Lachenmeyer: Hi key

In Kay Jamison’s, An Unquiet Mind, she writes a personal memoir on her own experience with manic depressive disorder (bipolar disorder) and describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. She recounts, now only her own struggles with the illness, but also how she has been able to use her disease to treat others similarly affected and searches for a better understanding of the illness. This paper focuses on the symptoms

one suffering from the disease hold back our efforts to progress with treatments and move positively with mental health. Dr. Kay Jamison was a senior in high school when she began experiencing the attacks that came along with manic-depressive disorder. It started with a manic phase in what she would describe as “hundreds of subsequent periods of high enthusiasm”, (Jamison, p. 37 ). As her mania phase leveled down, the depressive portion of the illness took its place. Feelings of fatigue, agitation

Reflection of the Book "An Unquiet Mind" In her book, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Jamison instills an understanding of bipolar disorder from two opposing perspectives. Initially, Jameson tells a tale of herself as a long-term victim of bipolar. It is from her description that a reader is highlighted about the various avenues through which the condition attacks. Besides exploring the disorder as the victim, the book as well depicts Jamison as the healed. That is, she gives an account of her life as an individual

Clinical Case Formulation: Kay Redfield Jamison and Bipolar (Manic-Depressive) Disorder Kay Redfield Jamison is a caucasian female who is a professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently 70 years old and published her novel An Unquiet Mind about her bipolar disorder in 1995. Her father was an Air Force officer, who eventually struggled with alcoholism, depression, and anger issues after the family moved to California. Her sister also has struggled with mental illness, likely

The interview with Kay Redfield Jamison about her battle with bipolar disorder and stigma of being labeled “the crazy professor”. She is a psychiatry professor who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after thirty years when she tried to commit suicide. Dr. Jamison is an author of a memoir An Unquiet Mind and her acclaimed book on suicide Night Falls Fast. She is an expert on the condition of bipolar disorder and a patient herself. If someone tells you that you have an illness, and have to take medication