Depression Quote by Scott Pape

“...sometimes they almost made me feel glad that I had a few extra years to play my depression out with therapy and other means,…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Depression is becoming an increasingly serious problem. In the United Kingdom, for example, prescriptions for antidepressant drugs have risen by more than forty percent…

— Ken Robinson

“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

Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that the opposite…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

I was diagnosed with depression at fourteen, but I couldn't find any medication that did anything for me other than making things worse.

— Zoe Quinn

“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

“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

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

“If you are a parent trying to determine if psychiatric medications are appropriate for your child, remember one thing: Most of these drugs have…

— Gwen Olsen

Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products…

— Thomas Szasz

“More young people are experiencing not just symptoms of depression, and not just feelings of anxiety, but clinically diagnosable major depression...”

— Jean M. Twenge

The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.

— David Sheff