The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response. — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Antidepressants sure kill your sexual life...Now, THAT'S depressing! — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant. — Bill Phillips Copy Share Image
Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because… — Mico Monsalve Copy Share Image
Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people. — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me. — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I take antidepressants, which I was embarrassed about for a long time, but it keeps me going. — Tess Holliday Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run. — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image
This is a common misconception about antidepressants: many people believe they're simply 'happy pills' that will wipe a person's emotional slate clean.… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate. You think… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated… — Paul Greengard Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to accept that I needed to figure out something that worked for me. Because I had… — Taylor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
All I know is it’s silly to chase fun when all you need is the ground underneath you to be solid. And… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
People treat having a kid as somehow retiring from success. Quitting. Have you seen a baby? They’re pretty cute. Loving them is… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If you say, "I'm bursting with joy," a scientist could analyze your skin and find it loaded with neuropeptides that may have… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“For people who are depressed, and especially for those who do not receive enough benefit from medication of for whom the side… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“According to an article in the Washington Post: The Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly urged antidepressant manufacturers not to disclose to… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Depression, we are told over and over again, is a brain disease, a chemical imbalance that can be adjusted by antidepressant medication.… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Psychotherapy works for the treatment of depression, and the benefits are substantial. In head-to-head comparisons, in which the short-term effects of psychotherapy… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“In 2004, the FDA urged drug companies to adopt a 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy with respect to their clinical-trial data showing… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Our analyses of the FDA data showed relatively little difference between the effects of antidepressants and the effects of placebos. Indeed, the… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Physicians do not systematically prescribe placebos to their patients. Hence they have no way of comparing the effects of the drugs they… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself… — Rachel Machacek Copy Share Image
Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We have pills for headaches. We have antidepressants for sadness. We had God for believers. We have nothing for autism.” — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
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