![]() ![]() Why did Jamison avoid bringing her illness into the open for so many years, and what made her finally decide to do so?ĥ. It's another thing if you're out in the real world"( Washington Post Magazine, 4/16/95). "It's one thing if you're independently wealthy. "Being open is the sort of thing that I advise people to think very long and hard about,"Jamison has stated. Why did she refuse to acknowledge the obvious? Why didn't she question the "rigid, irrelevant notions of self-reliance" she had been taught?Ĥ. ![]() ![]() ![]() In graduate school, Jamison writes, "Despite the fact that we were being taught how to make clinical diagnoses, I still did not make any connection in my own mind between the problems I had experienced and what was described as manic-depressive illness in the textbooks". What benefits did the conservative military lifestyle led by the Jamisons confer upon the young Kay Jamison? With what disadvantages did that same culture, with its stiff-upper-lip creed, afflict her in her battle with mental illness?ģ. What aspects of Jamison's early life and upbringing helped to provide her with emotional support on which to draw years later?Ģ. "The long and important years of childhood and early adolescence.were to be an extremely powerful amulet, a potent and positive countervailing force against future unhappiness". ![]()
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