“When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe f...” — Kay Redfield Jamison Quote

“When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.”

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

“People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.”

“I've suffered a little bit with depression in the past and I also have friends who have gone through depression.”

“Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.”

“We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.”