“Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance.” — Robert Whitaker Depressed person Copy Share Image
“Rather than fix chemical imbalances in the brain, the drugs creat them.” — Robert Whitaker Drugs 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… — Robert Whitaker Depression 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,… — Robert Whitaker Five years 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… — Robert Whitaker Children 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… — Robert Whitaker Books 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… — Robert Whitaker Placebo 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… — Robert Whitaker Depression 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… — Robert Whitaker Child development 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… — Robert Whitaker Emotions 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… — Robert Whitaker Peace 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… — Robert Whitaker Depression Copy Share Image
“Recovery on the med model requires you to be obedient, like a child," she explains. "You are obedient to your doctors, you… — Robert Whitaker Children Copy Share Image
“With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with… — Robert Whitaker Medicine 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… — Robert Whitaker Placebo Copy Share Image
“...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their… — Robert Whitaker Child Copy Share Image
“That experience allowed me to see this therapeutic principle in action," Stanton said. "You just can't organize yourself without a connection to… — Robert Whitaker Wine Copy Share Image
“Psychosis does not live in the head. It lives in the in-between of family members, and in the in-between of people," Salo… — Robert Whitaker Family Copy Share Image
“Klonopin ruined my lie. It takes away your drive, and in the morning, you don't want to get out of bed, because… — Robert Whitaker Motivation Copy Share Image
“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is… — Robert Whitaker Mental illness Copy Share Image
“And what science had revealed was this: Prior to treatment, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric disorders do not suffer… — Robert Whitaker Depression Copy Share Image
