Quote by Robert Whitaker Download Open image ““Rather than fix chemical imbalances in the brain, the drugs creat them.”” — Robert Whitaker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Drugs literally dominate the brain because the brain doesn’t have an adequate defense against drugs.” — Michael Kuhar Copy Share Image
“Whenever I start to doubt if I’m worth the eternal trouble of medication and therapy, I remember those people who let the fog win.… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Drugs may know how to numb a brain, but the past never forgets to resurface.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“Drugs consumes mind, body and soul but only the weak gets devouerd” — Fabian Gustafsson Copy Share Image
“The majority of prescription medications that the doctors gave me degraded my health instead of improving it.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“One of the unfortunate side effects of my medication is it hinders my ability to act crazy.” — Kyra Davis Copy Share Image
“Drugs have destroyed many people. But wrong government policies have destroyed many more.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“I saw what medication did to people; it made them zombies. I could learn to control my anger, but I refused to live my… — Bry Ann Copy Share Image
By all means, if you have a chemical imbalance, use medication. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be allowed to have a broader conversation… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
“Drugs and Alcohol, although a crutch, have been the downfall of some of our greatest authors, artists & performers. These mind altering, addictive, substances… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“Here’s a life lesson for you kids: it’s much easier to go through something upsetting when you’re on drugs. The more intense the drug,… — Cat Marnell 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,… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I have always been told that a person has to accept that the illness is chronic," she says, at the end of our interview.… — 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… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“The cocktail she took usually included a mood stabilizer, an antidepressant, and a benzodiazepine for anxiety, although the exact combination was always changing. One… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“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
“Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance.” — 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
