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“Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.”

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Peter D. Kramer is an American psychiatrist known for his research on schizophrenia and depression. His book 'Listening to Prozac' became a bestseller and influenced public awareness of mental health issues. more

“The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.”

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Book:Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia

Source: Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia

“Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.”

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Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.”

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Book:Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.”

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Book:Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

Source: Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

“I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't work for me, the answer would be a simple no... and it would be an answer laced with terror. But lithium does work for me, and therefore I can afford to pose the question. Strangely enough, I think I would choose to have it. It's complicated.”

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Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.”

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Book:Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

Source: Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

“When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.”

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Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

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