![]() ![]() The hard side effects, missing the highs - "of course I am strong enough - I ought to be able to carry on without drugs" She documents the challenges of adhering to medication protocol especially when feeling better. So she has to give up sports - Squash, horse riding she felt she was giving up a part of herselfĪs a trained doctor, she is very conscious of her reluctance to edication - "I ought to be able to handle whatever difficulties came my way without having to rely upon crutches such as Medication". ![]() She does talk of how Lithium threw off coordination. ![]() And eventually learns to accept lithium in her life, even creating rules of acceptance with a sense of humour. She explains at length the challenges of lithium - the effect of lithium in the early days, the lithium toxicity, but also missing the highs of mania, especially mildly mania phase - controlled by lithium, hating the ‘normal’, how her sister raged against her need for lithium. Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, a leading expert on bipolar disorder writes a brilliantly vivid and honest memoir with very detailed descriptions of her phases, especially the mania phases. The memoir 'An Unquiet Mind' is a must read if you want to insights into Bipolar Disorder from the perspective of a person living with it or Manic Depression as Kay Jamison prefers to call it. ![]()
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