Antidepressant Medication Quotes

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.

I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.

I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.

What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.

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.'

Don't they give you happy pills in this place?

There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love.

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.

There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.

When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.

I take Wellbutrin because I'm afraid to go into stores. I'm afraid people are going to yell at me.

There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. 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. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

Instead of silencing artists, is it possible that antidepressants can actually help them vocalize their creative ambitions?

Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.

The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.

We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.

If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.

I have trouble getting approvals from my heath insurance company for basic antidepressants. And I have the best plan my agency has. I can't get high off this stuff! I'm not going to sell it! Getting my medication is critical. It's me saying, "I just want to live." And their response seems to be, "We agree that it's a matter of life and death; that's why we're declining it." Every time I get a cold, I have Tylenol with codeine coming out the wazoo. But the medication I need to live? Nah.

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.

There was loose talk of Enron management practices and reminders of a scandal at the University of Toronto, when a big donor corporation, Eli Lilly, was said to have vetoed the appointment of an academic who doubted the effectiveness of Prozac.