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    I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

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    Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.

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    Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

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    The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.

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    What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

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    When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception.

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    Peter D. Kramer

    The advice that I have valued in my own life has never turned on fixed maxims or canned metaphors. More crucially, lists of precepts don't work like targeted advice because lists contain inherently constraining messages. They seem to say that complex matters are knowable, that a given process leads to foreseeable results. It implies a thin and predictable world, whereas the sort of advice that has mattered to me bespeaks a quite tentative optimism, the optimism of the quest whose outcome is finally unknowable.