"Sharing 'An Unquiet Mind': Confronting Inner Turmoil"

- The significance of taking lithium in tandem with psychotherapy. - The difficulty of overcoming stigma around mental illness. - The search for better treatment and understanding for manic-depression (and its biological and hereditary nature.) - The importance of love and tenderness in the face of madness. - If Dr. Jamison were given the choice to live without manic-depression, provided that lithium is effective, she would still choose the heightened intensity and passion of life despite the occasional winters of bleak thoughts.