Oliver Kamm > Quotes

“The dosage initially prescribed by the doctor didn't seem to be effective. So he put the prescription up to 40mg, then it kicked in. I didn't myself sensed any obvious change in mood, but it was noticeable to others. [..] The drugs worked in a sense not that I was better but that i could handle the days better.”
― Oliver Kamm, Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression

“Ilness is not a test of willpower to be concered by an assertion of will but a matter of fact.”
― Oliver Kamm, Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression

“That's the unspectacular case for antidepressants, they don't make you well, they don't make you better than well, they make it easier for you to get better. They enable you to find the emotional space i which to train yourself to get well.”
― Oliver Kamm, Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression