Any Quote by 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

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

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

I definitely think that prescription drugs, like antidepressants, are prescribed so cavalierly, anyone can get anything, but I need it. I do think that…

— Sarah Silverman

“North American society tries to bury many problems under tons of medications, preferring to ignore the social and cultural causes of people’s stressed mental…

— Gabor Maté

Antidepressants can not cure a disease

— Florah

Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

— Irving Kirsch

“Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they…

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

It's important to say that depression has biological underpinnings, and that while medications do not seem to create irreversible changes in the brain, repeated…

— Andrew Solomon

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

— Irving Kirsch

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