
The author is extremely insightful, and she does an excellent job of capturing in words what mental illness feels like. There’s no attempt to gloss over the messy and downright ugly bits of mental illness. The book contains rich descriptions, and it’s searingly honest. The book captures her journey with bipolar, from its emergence in her late teens to its effects on her accomplished career as a clinical psychologist and university professor. Send us feedback about these examples.An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison is an intimate look into the havoc that bipolar disorder can wreak. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'unquiet.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2021 Emily and Ted, these notably unquiet Americans, win over their doubters through the brute force of their charm. Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2021 In the racist trope of the unquiet Indian in modern American horror, the dead are violent by default and stuck in a kind of death match with the living. Fintan O’toole, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022 With gentle humor, Flora’s visitations flip the racial script: rather than unquiet Natives rising from violated land, Erdrich conjures a busybody settler exasperating the Ojibwe living. Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022 Charles Stewart Parnell, who championed the cause of Irish Home Rule, is the unquiet ghost who haunts the book. 2022 Around him unfolds the dull and hopeless work of a cubicle maze that forces otherwise potentially lovable people to live lives of unquiet desperation. 2022 Something is certainly making Sutter’s unquiet spirit walk. The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, 6 Dec.



2023 Instead of providing an answer, Gleeson takes us into the unquiet mind of a man whose profound unhappiness is its own kind of life force. Recent Examples on the Web The calamity at Waco, the shipwrecks of the Spanish Armada, unquiet literary unions, a new thriller from Sweden and more.
