I really enjoyed reading An Unquiet Mind! A "steady" book, emotional but not overly heavy. I thought it'd be more full of facts about the illness, symptoms etc, I'm glad it wasn't. It's honest and beautifully written. I just couldn't put it down, finished reading it in one day!

The importance of medicating the illness and what difference having love and support has meant to Dr. Jamison (and I'm sure other sufferers of the illness) is a message that doesn't pass you by.

As a person who has only experienced the highs and lows of manic-depression from the outside I feel the book has given me a deeper understanding for what they are like...

I really enjoy a well-written book and Dr. Jamison uses (at least in my foreign opinion) the beauty of the English language perfectly...!


From the back of the book:
"As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective -- as healer and healed -- that makes Jamison's memoir so lucid, learned, and profoundly affecting.

Even as she was pursuing her psychiatric training, Jamison found herself succumbing to the exhilarating highs and paralyzing lows that afflicted many of her patients. Though the disorder brought her seemingly boundless energy and mercurial creativity, it also propelled her into spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempt at suicide."