Exuberance, The Passion for Life

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, speaks about her book "Exuberance, The Passion for Life" at a conference on teacher wellness organized by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY). Introduced by CTY's Dr. Charles Rowins. Topics include: mental health, genius, creativity, moods and mood disorders, depression, bi-polar disorder, teaching gifted and talented children, genetics, risk-taking and the joy of teaching. As Dr. Jamison writes in "Exuberance": "To teach well, I heard early and often, is to make a difference. To teach unusually well is to create magic."

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As my step father has always told me "never give up"
-Aaron Lloyd Klein

“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're "not at all like yourself but will be soon," but you know you won't.” 

― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind

Discrimination and Stigma Against Patients with Depression and Bipolar Disorder

Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., discusses the changes in societal views of mental illness in recent decades, largely due to scientific advances to explain causes and develop treatments. But she challenges the notion that scientific discovery is the only path needed to battle discrimination against people suffering from these very common diseases. This lecture was delivered at the Johns Hopkins 25th Annual Mood Disorders Research/Education Symposium on April 5, 2011.

We Cannot Tolerate Not Getting Treatment

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, author of "An Unquiet Mind," talks about the shared responsibility of those living with mental illness and their employees. Dr. Jamison participated in The CT Forum's "An Honest Look at Mental Illness" with author Andrew Solomon, Dr. Hank Schwartz, and NPR's John Dankosky on Friday, March 7, 2014.

"An Honest Look at Mental Illness" was Hosted by Hartford HealthCare, with Presenting Sponsor Wheeler Clinic. 

In this University of Virginia video, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, shares her experiences with living every day with the mania and severe depression that she had studied for years. She talks openly of the challenges she faced with the treatment and disclosure of her mental illness.