“Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I ha...” — Kay Redfield Jamison Quote

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

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

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.

We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground. We fail to communicate our resolve.

Shopping can be a nightmare - first finding something to wear and then finding something to go with it, it's so difficult when there's so much choice. It can feel like entering a battleground.

Many people think that Puerto Rico would be a Democratic state just by virtue of the inclination of the Latino population in the United States, but the reality is that I see Puerto Rico as a battleground state.

Tony Blair in opposition recognised that as long as the economy remained a 'Tory issue,' which Labour could at best play down, Labour was going to lose. So he turned it into a genuine battleground. We need to do the same on the big so-called 'Labour issues.'