Quotes About Medication

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.

Because Buddhism presents a spiritual argument for the transformation (not the medication) of suffering, as well as specific and systematic methods of analyzing subjective distress, it now assists me in being able to address audiences about the principles and uses of analytic psychotherapy.

He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

It's not unusual for me to wake up in the middle of the night and not know where I am. I take sleep medication to deal with all the flights. But I find it helps to eat at the same time every day.

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

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

I've actually suffered from allergies my entire life. My mom had allergies, so I was aware of what an issue they can be. Many people allow their allergies to affect their lives. As a mom with two kids and two jobs, I just can't let allergies slow me down. It's a day to day thing that can really be remedied by finding the right medication.

If you're in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it's good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes - get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk - your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can't control it.

Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.

I don't know anything any more, he said, and let a sleep lozenge dissolve on his tongue

Maybe you took two pills and forgot and took two more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopy you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you.

I have what's called an addiction to Ativan, and Xanax. Which is preferable to admitting to an aversion to planes.

The only medication she enjoyed was the morphine they administered in even higher doses

I live with depression and anxiety.* I take medication, I practice meditation and CBT, and I see a therapist regularly to help me handle it. It doesn't control my life, and it doesn't define my life . . . but when it's really bad, it sure feels like it does. When it's really bad, it feels like it is the only thing in my entire life, the Alpha and Omega of my existence.

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

While the West tends to medicate pain, the East helps us to embrace it.

[Psychiatric] drugs have so many side effects because using them to treat a complex psychiatric disorder is a bit like trying to change your engine oil by opening a can and pouring it all over the engine block. Some of it will dribble into the right place, but a lot of it will do more harm than good.

Lekiem na nud? jest ciekawo??. Na ciekawo?? nie ma leku.

He also said you never really knew what kind of side effects might pop up until at least ten thousand people had taken a drug

That's one of my issues with the pharmaceutical industry - they believe pharmacy is a panacea for absolutely everything.

I've seen phenomenal work in Leicester where people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease use telecare to measure their own oxygen levels, and if they need to change their meds they get a phonecall from a nurse who has seen the results of their readings.