Antidepressants Quote by Marcia Angell

“The World Health Organization has twice found that schizophrenia outcomes are much, much better in poor countries like India, Nigeria, and Colombia than in…

— Darby Penney

“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

Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery…

— Richard Bentall

“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear.…

— Robert Whitaker

[Psychiatric] drugs have so many side effects because using them to treat a complex psychiatric disorder is a bit like trying to change your…

— Suman Rai

“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

We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.

— Thomas R. Insel

“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

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

— Irving Kirsch

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

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are…

— Irving Kirsch

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

— Irving Kirsch