“The prescribing of stimulants to ADHD youth began to take off in the 1980s, and today, thirty years later, studies have failed to show that this treatment helps children grow up and thrive. In a 2012 op-ed published in the… — 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
