An Unquiet Mind

 

A life saviour book from a fighter

Kay’s An Unquiet Mind does the unimaginable!! She’s a fighter!

Dr Kay Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and attempted suicide.

It’s frightening. At one moment you want everyone to stay far away and will act everything to do so whereas wanting them to understand and stay with you at the same time.

Being a patient as well as a doctor of manic-depression illness, Kay has put her career at stake for the awareness of the disease. It is a must-read for the silent sufferers and for all to understand why some people are the way they are. It can save one’s life. A highly painful life and she fights like a warrior. The book gives hope to all sufferers.

Summary:

Kay is diagnosed with manic-depression illness, which means there are moments she becomes wild; extreme violence, loss of humour, change of personality and she tries to commit suicide. She gives in to the sense of shame and takes the medication of lithium. Lithium controls her from taking extreme steps while the dosage never really ends. And life goes on.

Life takes a turn and a patient becomes a doctor. A psychiatrist and that too of manic-depression illness. She fights discrimination and lack of awareness everywhere about depression. People are just furious over her being a manic-depression expert in spite of suffering from it.

Love saves her. She finds her love and it controls her illness. Even after a divorce and death of a lover, she moves on. Grief and depression are two separate things, she overcomes grief and continues to treat the patient with mania & depression.

The pain is unbearable. The fight with the mind never really stops. Many of her patients commit suicide. From the experiences, she gets deeply disturbed and goes on to write this must-read memoir!