Depression Quote by Robert Whitaker

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

— Carrie Fisher

“Depression, we are told over and over again, is a brain disease, a chemical imbalance that can be adjusted by antidepressant medication. In an…

— Irving Kirsch

“Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance.”

— Robert Whitaker

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events…

— Siri Hustvedt

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

“The results of decades of neurotransmitter-depletion studies point to one inescapable conclusion: low levels or serotonin, norepinephrine or dopamine do not cause depression. here…

— Irving Kirsch

[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

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an…

— Irving Kirsch

“Rather than fix chemical imbalances in the brain, the drugs creat them.”

— Robert Whitaker

“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

The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough…

— Irving Kirsch

“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate…

— Mark Fisher