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

4.5

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

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This book made me sob in a way I haven’t in a long time—not since before I was unmedicated and ravaging through the world in a raw and unprotected way. I didn’t sob because it’s sad (it is) and I didn’t sob because I’m jealous of her writing style (I am), but because I didn’t know someone else’s mind worked like mine. I don’t have the psychosis or mania, but I do understand the euphoria and depressive episodes that follow. It was almost like reading about a mind I had known to trust but couldn’t because it fractured somewhere between 17 and 21. Jamison is an inspiration to bring humanity to mental illness, especially a polarizing one like manic-depressive (bipolar).