Editing Kay Redfield Jamison (section)

==Personal life==
Jamison has said she is an "exuberant" person who longs for peace and tranquility but in the end prefers "tumultuousness coupled to iron discipline" to a "stunningly boring life."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-247.htm |title=Kay Jamison Interview |access-date=2005-11-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119033108/http://mcmanweb.com/article-247.htm |archive-date=2005-11-19 }}</ref> In ''[[An Unquiet Mind]]'', she concluded:

<blockquote>I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist. It is, at the end of the day, the individual moments of restlessness, of bleakness, of strong persuasions and maddened enthusiasms, that inform one's life, change the nature and direction of one's work, and give final meaning and color to one's loves and friendships.<ref>Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness {{ISBN|1447275284}}, Publisher: Picador (1 Jan. 2015)</ref></blockquote>

Jamison was born to Dr. Marshall Verdine Jamison (1916–2012), an officer in the U.S. [[United States Air Force|Air Force]], and Mary Dell Temple Jamison (1916–2007).<ref>{{cite web|title=Marshall Verdine Jamison |url=http://www.northumberlandecho.com/?p=2136 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130030315/http://www.northumberlandecho.com/?p=2136 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 30, 2013 |access-date=September 22, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="An_Unquiet_Mind" /> Jamison's father, and many others in his family, had bipolar disorder.<ref name="An_Unquiet_Mind" />

As a result of Jamison's military background, she grew up in many different places, including [[Florida]], [[Puerto Rico]], [[California]], [[Tokyo]], and [[Washington, D.C.]] She has two older siblings, a brother and a sister, who are three years and half a year older, respectively.<ref name="An_Unquiet_Mind" /> Her niece is writer [[Leslie Jamison]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.graywolfpress.org/blogs/video-leslie-jamison-and-kay-redfield-jamison-conversation-politics-prose |title=Video: Leslie Jamison and Kay Redfield Jamison in Conversation at Politics & Prose |date=April 17, 2014 |access-date=October 8, 2017 |work=Graywolf Press |archive-date=September 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922003031/https://www.graywolfpress.org/blogs/video-leslie-jamison-and-kay-redfield-jamison-conversation-politics-prose |url-status=dead }}</ref> Jamison's interest in science and medicine began at a young age and was fostered by her parents. She worked as a [[candy striper]] at the hospital on [[Andrews Air Force Base]].<ref name="An_Unquiet_Mind" />

Jamison moved to California during adolescence, and soon thereafter began to struggle with bipolar disorder. She continued to struggle in college at UCLA. At first she wanted to become a doctor, but because of increasing occurring manic episodes, she decided she could not maintain the rigorous discipline needed for medical school. Jamison then found her calling in psychology. Here she flourished and was extremely interested in mood disorders. Despite her studies, Jamison did not realize that she was bipolar until three months into her first job as a professor in UCLA's Department of Psychology. After her diagnosis, she was put on [[lithium (medication)|lithium]], a drug that has commonly  been used to regulate and moderate moods. At times, she would refuse the medication because it impaired her motor skills, but after a greater depression she decided to continue to take it. Jamison once attempted suicide by overdosing on lithium during a severe depressive episode.

Jamison is an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopalian]],<ref>{{harvnb|Jamison|1999|p=310}}</ref> and she was married to her first husband, Alain André Moreau, an artist, during her graduate school years.<ref name="An_Unquiet_Mind">{{harvnb|Jamison|1995|pages=57, 222}}</ref> She later married Dr. Richard Wyatt in 1994;<ref>{{harvnb|Jamison|2009|p=32}}</ref> and they remained married until his death in 2002.<ref>{{cite news|last=O'Connor |first=Anahad |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/us/richard-j-wyatt-63-is-dead-led-studies-of-schizophrenia.html |title=Richard J. Wyatt, 63, Is Dead; Led Studies of Schizophrenia |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 12, 2002 |access-date=July 27, 2011}}</ref> Wyatt was a [[psychiatrist]] who studied [[schizophrenia]] at the [[National Institutes of Health]]. Their romance is detailed in her memoir ''Nothing Was the Same''.

In 2010, Jamison married Thomas Traill, a cardiology professor at Johns Hopkins.<ref>{{cite news|last=Thomas-Lester |first=Avis |url=http://views.washingtonpost.com/on-success/what-it-takes/2009/12/a_career-altering_mental_illness.html|title=A psychologist's career-altering mental illness |newspaper=Washington Post|year=2010 |access-date=December 8, 2011}}</ref>