An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

BATB score: 8/10 🫶

Adam Kay’s top five best medical memoirs recommendations

Best as: a psychologist specializing in mood disorders who has bipolar disorder + maniac depression herself 🤯

Best to: beautifully written and eloquently narrated the feelings and struggles of depression

Best for: a doctor’s memoir- I believe it is impossible for one to know what depression feels like unless you have had it

Best quotes: “The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.”

“One would put an animal to death for far less suffering.”

“I’ve laughed more often for having cried more often.”