Addresses Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Statistics show that 25% of women are on medication for mental illness. That's bloody scary. It means 75% are running around with no medication at all!

— Nishan Panwar

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

— Kirstie Alley

“women may respond differently from men to certain drugs. Medical researchers in the mid-twentieth century often assumed this couldn’t be a problem. “There was…

— Angela Saini

Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.

— Gaby Hoffmann

“The self-esteem of psychiatry got very low as a result of it. It had never really been accepted as part of medicine because the…

— Jon Ronson

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

“Women are very complicated, even if you are a psychiatrist.”

— François Lelord

I believe the biggest stigma right now, with mental health, is that a lot of men are not talking about it.

— Mauro Ranallo

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man…

— Harry Segall

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normalbranch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who…

— Frances Wriht

There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the…

— Florence King