“And what science had revealed was this: Prior to treatment, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric disorders do not suffer from any known "chemical imbalance". However, once a person is put on a psychiatric medication, which, in one… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“The history of psychiatry and its treatments can be a contentious issue in our society, so much so that when you write about it,… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“The off-drug patients also suffered less from depression, blunted emotions, and retarded movements. Indeed, they told Carpenter and McGlashan that they had found it… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“I have always been told that a person has to accept that the illness is chronic," she says, at the end of our interview.… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Rather than fix chemical imbalances in the brain, the drugs creat them.” — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups than in… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“...and she no longer is having her emotional responses to...stress numbed by medication. "I've been off the drugs for two years, and sometimes I… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“The cocktail she took usually included a mood stabilizer, an antidepressant, and a benzodiazepine for anxiety, although the exact combination was always changing. One… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance.” — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“The prescribing of stimulants to ADHD youth began to take off in the 1980s, and today, thirty years later, studies have failed to show… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“That is where we stand as a nation today. Twenty years ago, our society began regularly prescribing psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents, and… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
