Kay Redfield Jamison Quote

The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.


An Unquiet Mind: Picador Classic (ed. Pan Macmillan, 2014) - ISBN: 9781447275299


The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with...

The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with...

The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with...

The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with...