“One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.”

— 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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