Antidepressant Quotes

“I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and yet it happens all the time... you go to the doctor with symptoms of profound grief and they push an antidepressant at you. We need to walk through our grief, not medicate it and shove it under the carpet like it wasn't there.”
― Richard Wagner, The Amateur's Guide to Death and Dying: Enhancing the End of Life

“The issues of antidepressant-associated suicide has become front-page news, the result of an analysis suggesting a link between medication use and suicidal ideation among children, adolescents, a link between medication use and suicidal ideation among children, adolescents, and adults up to age 24 in short term (4 to 16 weeks), placebo-controlled trials of nine newer antidepressant drugs. The data from trials involving more than 4.4(K) patients suggested that the average risk of suicidal thinking or behavior (suicidality) during the first few months of treatment in those receiving antidepressants was 4 percent, twice the placebo risk of 2 percent. No suicides occured in these trials. The analysis also showed no increase in suicide risk among the 25 to 65 age group. Antidepressants reduced suicidality among those over age 65. Following public hearings on the subject, in October 2004, the FDA requested the addition of “black box” warnings—the most serious warning placed on the labeling of a prescription medication—to all antidepressant drugs, old and new.”
― Benjamin James Sadock, Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry

“antidepressant: (n.) any of various energetic techniques for warding off parasitic friends, colleagues, and family members.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“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

“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

“Reading a book is mountain climbing for the mind.”
― Jordan G Kobos