Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes About Drugs

Quotes about: Drugs

• We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Wall, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Dec 20, 2010

• We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication—we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Wall, Pain, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from May 17, 2014

• I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Drug, Diagnosis, Reason

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

• I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is that people tend to think that's enough.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

• I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years. The choice is not between a drug that has side effects or not, life is not ideal. Yes, your drug has side effects and yes if you don't take it you're going to die.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Years, Choices, Drug

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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