Gene Tierney Quotes

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.

Medication can help us live a happier life.

We're beginning to find out that many of the school shootings are side reactions to Prozac-like medications. That's a very big hidden factor.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition to depression.

I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.

Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.

I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm at home with my dog.

I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.

I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a lot of people go through too much. I think there's a lot of guesswork in psychiatry.

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.

I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

When I was a visitor to a lunatic asylum I always noticed how well the worst lunatics looked.

All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.