Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes About Grief

Quotes about: Grief

• Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, Comes And Goes

• ...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, Broken, Half

• People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, People, Interesting

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

• In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, People, Needs

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

• I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people can, but by and large people - that's one of the first things that goes, is the capacity to read meaningful literature. With grief, that's not true. For a while you can't read, but then you really are amenable to solace.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Meaningful, Grief, Thinking

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

• I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are very concerned when grief becomes pathological, that there is no question that grief can trigger depression in vulnerable people and there is no question that depression can make grief worse.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, Thinking, People

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

• I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, Thinking, Awareness

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

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