![]() Her lovers share a sameness-exquisite sensitivity, love of poetry, music-and all seem to have been especially nurturing and sensitive to her plight. ![]() ![]() This is not a novel, and Redfield is not especially adept at portraying other people. She recounts how her illness notwithstanding, she was able by dint of intelligence and personal charm to succeed professionally, travel well, dine well and, above all, love well. In “An Unquiet Mind,” Jamison describes her family and suggests the condition is hereditary. Like many others with her condition, Jamison rejected the medication until, desperate to avoid the suicidal pit of depression, she admitted to herself that the high of the manic phase was tied to the down cycle and that the price of denial could be death. She discovered that lithium could dispel her depression long before she was convinced that she was really ill and needed it to survive. The miracle drug-lithium-to which she credits her survival was not enough by itself. Jamison’s story is a paean both to drug therapy and to the devotion of those who cared enough to help her when she could not help herself. This medication has allowed Jamison to rise professionally and build a happy marriage. ![]() Jamison is able to describe these adventures because she is among the lucky majority of depressives who respond positively to lithium-a neuropharmaceutical drug. ![]()
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