Better off Quote by Jonathan Michel Metzl

Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view it as…

— Sheila Walsh

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

— Kirstie Alley

Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible with the…

— Park Dietz

There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a…

— John Darnielle

Most psychiatrists assume that mental illnesses such as depression are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which can be treated by drugs. But…

— Mark Fisher

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of…

— R. D. Laing

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normalbranch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who…

— Frances Wriht

The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a…

— E. Fuller Torrey

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man…

— Harry Segall

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be…

— Thomas Szasz

“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort…

— Carl Elliott

Mental illness is so hard to define. It's not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person can have…

— Stephanie Labbe