“If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?”

—  Kay Redfield Jamison

Source: Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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American bipolar disorder researcher 1946

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