Stimulants Quotes

“Years now without coffee, without alcohol, without tobacco.
...Luckily, there is anxiety, which usefully replaces the strongest stimulants.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due.”
― Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

“Medications used to treat psychiatric disorders are commonly referred to as psychotropic drugs. These drugs are commonly described by their major clinical application, for example, antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics, hypnotics, cognitive enhancers, and stimulants. A problem with this approach is that these drugs have multiple indicators. For example, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRls) are both antidepressants and anxiolytics, and the serotonin-dopamine antagonists (SDAs) are both anxiolytics and mood stabilizers.”
― Benjamin J. Sadock, Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry

“That body of his, which had been fed more on stimulants than on food...”
― Will James, Sand

“The most stimulants I have taken in life were during my extreme night shifts to keep me awake.”
― Steven Magee

“Masturbation is a function of sleep deprivation, electromagnetic exposures, hormones and ingested stimulants.”
― Steven Magee

“When I went to the medical profession complaining of fatigue, they put me on stimulants. They just override the fatigue feeling, but the cause of it is still there. They could not diagnose the circadian rhythm disorder and urea cycle disorder, both of which cause fatigue!”
― Steven Magee

“Stimulants to the heart and emotions are very effective, keep and protect your partner you have to find out the things which affect quickly.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Stimulants to the heart and emotions are very effective to keep and protect your partner you have to find out which things impact quickly.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Before studying imipramine, [Donald] Klein had worked with drug addicts, and he noticed that addicts had distinct preferences. Those who favored morphine could generally be distinguished from those who favored cocaine or amphetamine. And though both types of drugs give a rush of pleasure, the eventual effects are different.

Opiates satiate an addict, at least while they remain effective. Cocaine and amphetamine do not satiate but, rather, excite further desire; stimulant addicts will tend to "go on a run" and rapidly use all the
drug at their disposal.

To Klein, these varieties of pharmacologic pleasure-seeking corresponded to varieties of ordinary enjoyment. Some pleasures, like eating a big meal or sexual orgasm, are satiating and do accord with
Freud's concept of excitation reduction. But others, like "foraging, hunting, searching, and socializing," or sexual foreplay, are excitatory. Klein labeled these two sorts of pleasure "consummatory" and"appetitive.”
― Peter D. Kramer, Listening to Prozac

“Just as you can give in to your short-term desires and let these stimulants take over you, you can also choose to stop this enslavement by making these stimulants obsolete.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond