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The need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short.
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
If you have been sick for a long, long time, Prozac may make you high. It probably won't make you, never quite managed to be a part of, but a world, nevertheless, that you at first fit into with the precision of a key to a lock or a neurotransmitter to its receptor.
I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.
I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.
What drug will keep night from coming?
lethargic meliorist;
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.
Writing is the best anti-depressant.
Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.
Food is a costly antidepressant.
Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.
For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.
Depression is evil. Before you know it, it takes over and there's no escaping it.
Sex is a good antidepressant."
"Oh, please."
"When was the last time you were getting a blow job and you said, 'Oh, you'll have to stop, I'm depressed'?"
"I see your point.
Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.
Tell me dear, what do you know about prescribing atypical antipsychotics to enchance the effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors?
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.
Doctor, I'd like a bottle of placebo please.
Awe is the best drug in the world
I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.
There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.
The other option we have are medication treatments. So you'll have the treatments such as Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata, and we'll also have Rozerem and for some patients we use Benzodiazopine/Clonazepam. Things like that to help with anxiety.
Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.
Depression is inertia.
I don't believe in drugs. Attitude is everything. You can create your own happiness just by agreeing to be happy for no other reason and blow the moon out of the sky. After all, isn't that the true effect of medications?
Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does that very well.
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
The bane of Terri's life could use a prescription of Prozac.' (Terri)
I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.
Grief is itself a medicine.
Get a shot of love to prevent the infection called depression.
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
I find it fascinating that the conventional diagnosis of "depression" is so simplistic. It is almost like saying that someone is "sick." Yes, sick with what or of what? Ah, no, just "sick." We have anti-sick pills (anti-depressants). One size fits all. Really?
Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.
Medication can make a bad situation tolerable and mask the need for change.
[Depression is] like combating the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with a handful of popcorn. But that handful of popcorn keeps you going. There is no sense in going on, there is no sense in any of those things, but thank God one does not live by reason alone.
Fatalism's a weak antidepressant, but there's nothing stronger at Dr. Kumar's.
Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.
Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.
I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
People used to recognize it as mood.
Science has revealed it as cannabinoids.
When you feel sad, just do long running.
Then you will know that even mood can be governed.
I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.
Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.
In pharmaceutical speak, psilocybin is known as an asshole inhibitor.
God only knows what the doctor gave her. However,the medication has run out and she now must face the reality on her on accord.
Patient sees [lithium] medication as a promise of a cure, and a means of suicide if it doesn't work. She fears that by taking it she will risk her last resort
I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.
I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.
Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?
oxys, roxys, morphine and Dilaudid
Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.
When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate. You think everything's going to be horrible, so it usually is.
I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.
When you cannot find a pill for it, try taking a full dosage of responsibility
Depression is melancholy minus its charms.
Carisoprodol. Comes in a white tablet like a big-ass vitamin, 350 mg of muscle liquefier for those tense, recovering athletes and furniture movers. Too much, and those relaxed muscles include your diaphragm, then your heart.
Depression is sadness gone wrong
Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'
Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.
If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it even when you have ceased to experience it; the limited of experience that is achieved with chemical pills is not tantamount to a cure.
I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.
Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things.
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.
Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.
Depression is state of deep anxiety.
I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.
I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
Depression grabbed me like a piranha on the testicles of an Amazonian warrior. I couldn't tell where the pain was worse: my arm, my whole back, or my heart.
Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.
We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.
JOHNNA: What pills does she take? BEVERLY: Valium. Vicodin. Darvon, Darvocet. Percodan, Percocet. Xanax for fun. OxyContin in a pinch. Some Black Mollies once, just to make sure I was still paying attention. And of course Dilaudid. I shouldn't forget Dilaudid.
In psychiatry, Doctor -unlike, perhaps, the world of sexually transmitted disease clinics- there is no such thing as a cure. There is only adjustment.
But to like your life, you're going to need more than medication.
Who needed Prozac when a girl could get Pillsbury without a prescription?" ~Allie Shelby, Personal Assets
I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.
Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
The answer isn't another pill. The answer is spinach
I prescribe a quick jerk off in the shower and a return to sanity. (Dr. Hugo Peralta)
Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.
The medication given during mental-ill health makes you rather weaker in body, in soul and in spirit.
Depression is like war. You either win or you die trying. There's no in between.
Dad told me, 'Mommy doesn't need antidepressants, you see. She needs flowers and sometimes she needs antiques.
Depression is a choice.
I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working.
Depression simply is. It has no beginning and no end, no boundaries and no world outside itself. It is the first, the last, the only, the alpha and the omega. Memories of better times die upon its desolate shores. Voices drown in its seas. The mind becomes its own prisoner.
Sometimes I think depression must be like a dance in your head and anything can trigger it, if you know that dance.
What do you do for ecstasy?
I honestly can't think of any drug that has more of a stigma than antipsychotics. Truthfully
I definitely think that prescription drugs, like antidepressants, are prescribed so cavalierly, anyone can get anything, but I need it. I do think that it needs to work hand and hand with therapy.
There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love.
Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.