Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

...I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health...it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive.

When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself

I once talked about wanting to kill myself, but I don't think I was ever really planning on doing it. It was just comforting to know that I could.

No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable

Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.

We're beginning to find out that many of the school shootings are side reactions to Prozac-like medications. That's a very big hidden factor.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

I've been on antidepressants for years, and it worked to stop my anxiety and didn't limit creativity. Some of the best work I've done, in fact, is after I started taking the antidepressants.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

I wanted to die. I had a panic attack.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.