Depressed person Quote by Robert Whitaker Download Open image ““Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance.”” — Robert Whitaker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Depressed person
“Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it” — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Do you know doctors say that the lack of positive physical human contact will cause severe depression?” — Colin Warner Copy Share Image
“And what science had revealed was this: Prior to treatment, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric disorders do not suffer from any… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Depression is a Virus, handling it Once, Builds Your Immunity to it.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
“depression only happens to people who don’t know how to be sad.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Yet, I believe that my experience of depression has helped me to be a more humane and understanding therapist. Psychiatrists get depressed too, more… — Linda Gask Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“some evidence has accumulated that people who habitually fail to put the most favorable cast on their circumstances run the risk of depression.” — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“The history of psychiatry and its treatments can be a contentious issue in our society, so much so that when you write about it, as I did in an earlier book, Mad in America, people regularly ask about how you became interested in the subject. The assumption is that you must have a personal reason for being curious about this… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share
“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 "gratifying and informative" to have gone through their psychotic episodes without having their feelings numbed by the drugs. Medicated patients didn't have that same learning experience, and as a result Carpenter and McGlashan concluded, over the… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share
“I have always been told that a person has to accept that the illness is chronic," she says, at the end of our interview. "You can be 'in recovery,' but you can never be 'recovered.' But I don't want to be on disability forever, and I have started to question whether depression is really a chemical thing. What are the… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share
“Rather than fix chemical imbalances in the brain, the drugs creat them.” — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups than in… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“...and she no longer is having her emotional responses to...stress numbed by medication. "I've been off the drugs for two years, and sometimes I find it very, very difficult to deal with my emotions. I tend to have these rages of anger. Did the drugs bring such a cloud over my mind, make me so comatose, that I never gained… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share
“The cocktail she took usually included a mood stabilizer, an antidepressant, and a benzodiazepine for anxiety, although the exact combination was always changing. One drug would make her sleepy, another would give her tremors, and none of the cocktails seemed to bring her emotional tranquility. Then, in 2001, she was put on an anti-psychotic, Zyprexa, which, in a sense, worked… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share
“In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“The prescribing of stimulants to ADHD youth began to take off in the 1980s, and today, thirty years later, studies have failed to show… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“That is where we stand as a nation today. Twenty years ago, our society began regularly prescribing psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents, and… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“A depressed person is selfish because her self, the very core of who she is, will not leave her alone, and she can no… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.'… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You can try to have all the friends in the world to cover up your bitterness inside but if your not happy with or… — Lisette Alfaro Copy Share Image
“It appears that the picture of DID as the ongoing clash of polarized personality types (e.g., good girl-bad girl, upright citizen-sociopath) is hard to sustain, although such clashes, when they occur, arrest attention and at times become a concern of the forensic psychiatrist. Most patients have personalities that are named, but there may be those who are nameless or whose… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“how ridiculous it was. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Earlier in the day, while killing some hours by circling in blue ballpoint ink every uppercase M in the front section of a month-old New York Times, Chip had concluded that he was behaving like a depressed person. Now, as his telephone began to ring, it occurred to him that a depressed person ought to continue staring at the TV… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share
“A person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their arms grow back" may be the best description I've ever read of what… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“I remembered my pep talk to Esperanza a few months before, and understood just how ridiculous it was. There is no point in treating… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I think I've gotten a pretty fair shake in the music press over the years. The only think that kind of irks me is… — Thalia Zedek Copy Share Image
“That dead-eyed anhedonia is but a remora on the ventral flank of the true predator, the Great White Shark of pain. Authorities term this condition clinical depression or involutional depression or unipolar dysphoria. Instead of just an incapacity for feeling, a deadening of soul, the predator-grade depression Kate Gompert always feels as she Withdraws from secret marijuana is itself a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
