About Quote by Irving Kirsch

While anti-depressants can work for some people, I became a little too reliant on them - if you forget to take one, you feel…

— Caroline Flack

In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health…

— Andrew Weil

There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

— Irving Kirsch

Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.

— Irving Kirsch

The prescribers very often overstate, oversell, and the detail people are only too happy to tell them to do that. This idea that there's…

— Steven C. Hayes

To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.

— Irving Kirsch

Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of…

— Irving Kirsch

This is a common misconception about antidepressants: many people believe they're simply 'happy pills' that will wipe a person's emotional slate clean. Used correctly,…

— Andrew Shaffer

I've been taking medication for depression and anxiety ever since I was a teenager and I've had treatment for both.

— Olly Alexander

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go…

— Scott Weiland

In all, I've tried more than ten different forms of antidepressant, anti-anxiety meds and tranquillisers. I continue to spend hours of my life in…

— Frankie Bridge

The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me…

— Walter Kirn