Disorders of Mood: The Experience of Those Who Have Them

A Mind That Found Itself, published in 1908 with the support of William James, was critical in establishing the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins, helped reform the treatment of the mentally ill in America, and became the basis for the first major mental health advocacy movement in the United States.9 This essay focuses on accounts of mania and depression written by those who have s. [...] The wretched, convoluted, and confused mass of gray worked only well enough to torment me with a dreary litany of my inadequacies and shortcomings in character, and to taunt me with the total, the desperate, hopelessness of it all. [...] These citizens of the sky and the body have concluded a treaty, whose provision is this: the surface of the star Earth divided by the surface of the tiny corpuscular star equals 365 times 10 to the tenth power (365 x 1010). [...] This is the first article of the treaty between the government of blood cells and the government of heavenly bodies. [...] about the author Kay Redfield Jamison, a Fellow of the American Academy since 2015, is the Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders and Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center, and Honorary Professor of English at the University of St.