“I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.”

—  Kay Redfield Jamison

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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American bipolar disorder researcher 1946

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