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The Sound of Ideas - Kay Redfield Jamison: Living with Bipolar
The Sound of Ideas
 
 
 
Imagine being bipolar since the age of 17 but avoiding treatment for years despite a suicide attempt and relationships shattered beyond repair. Then imagine becoming a professor of psychiatry, an author of best sellers and co-author of the standard medical textbook on bipolar disorder. That describes our guest, clinical psychologist Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison. She describes her own profound mood swings in a new memoir, Nothing Was the Same. "No matter what I do, this illness will always bring me to my knees," she wrote. Jamison will tell us how her late husband handled her illness and what others touched by bipolarity can learn from their experience.

Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Pyschiatry, John Hopkins University School of Medicine & Codirector, John Hopkins Mood Disorders Center
Terri Miller, Program Coordinator, NAMI Greater Cleveland

January 15, 2010