In this University of Virginia video, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, shares her experiences with living every day with the mania and severe depression that she had studied for years. She talks openly of the challenges she faced with the treatment and disclosure of her mental illness.

Dr. Kay Redfield jamison is co-author of Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression