![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "But has it been costly? For sure." Jamison does acknowledge relief at being able to drop the "Brooks Brothers conservative" image she adopted to conceal her disorder, saying, "I hadn't realized the amount of time and energy I put into keeping this illness to myself. "I think now, two years after the publication of the book, I'd say yes, it was worth it," she says at last. Asked whether she would do it all again, she pauses for a long moment. Seated in her office at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Jamison reflects on the personal and professional price of that candor. In person, the incongruity is even more startling: Jamison is graceful and self-possessed, but speaks frankly about the harrowing realities of mental illness. Part of its appeal came from the fascinating contrast between Jamison's elegant prose and the extreme, often brutal experiences she recounted. But the 1995 book was a surprise hit, spending five months on the New York Times best-seller list and selling more than 400,000 copies. When psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., wrote An Unquiet Mind, an account of her struggles with manic depressive illness-which she has both experienced and studied-she expected modest sales, mostly to people who had been directly affected by the disorder. ![]()
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