What it is like to be a bipolar

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Kay Redfield Jamison

Kay Redfield Jamison is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her books include "An Unquiet Mind" and "Exuberance: The Passion for Life." She was honored with a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2001.

By Kay Redfield Jamison

Published on 09/7/2006

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars... But, somewhere this changes. The fast ideas are too fast, and there are far too many, overwhelming confusion replaces clarity.