Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes About Confusion

Quotes about: Confusion

• Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.24, Vintage

• There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Stars, Pain

• Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Confusion, Levels

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.24, Vintage

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