Depression Quote by Robert Whitaker

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train…

— Daniel Goleman

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

— Thomas R. Insel

I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something…

— Russell Brand

“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

[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

“If drugs really numb your consciousness, they'd be a good thing. As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you vulnerable to…

— Anne Rice

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and…

— Marcia Angell

“Many research studies, as well as my own clinical experience, have confirmed that severely depressed patients who appear very "biologically" depressed with lots of…

— David D. Burns

“Typically, a psychiatrist can fool a patient by telling him the root of his problem can be fixed with this pill, that support group,…

— J. Matthew Nespoli

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

— Robert Whitaker

“One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of…

— Chris Prentiss

Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There…

— Peter Breggin