Quotes About Treatment

When people are left out, we're naturally going to focus on that, if it's 47 million people who don't have health insurance, if it's 23,000 people who die every year because they lack access to health care for something that's easily treatable.

there is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that Relapse is part of recovery. It's another dangerous slogan that is based on a myth, and it only gives people permission to relapse because that think that when they do, they are on the road to recovery.

If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That's the primary reason there is such a high rate of relapse among people who have become dependent of alcohol and addictive drugs. It has little to do with alcohol and addiction themselves and almost everything to do with the original causes that created the dependency.

The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct cause is diagnosed, healing will take place and hoped-for cure will come about.

In the one-treatment-fits-all approach, clients sit in group meetings all day and all evening and listen to each other stories. At the end of the first week, everyone in the room knows everyone's story. That goes on for three more weeks, and then most people go home with the same problems they brought with them when they arrived.

The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I'm aware.

How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?

Can you see that meetings and centers that don't address the real causes of dependency are almost certain to be little or no help? They actually can be very damaging.

If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The reason alcoholism no longer sounds silly to you is because you're used to hearing it, reading it, and thinking about it.

This is made additionally problematic by the tendency of modern medicine to fall back on the use of euphemistic

Lucien, women are wondrous, mysterious, and magical creatures, who should be treated not only with respect but with reverence, perhaps even awe. Now go sweep the steps.

You're angry with the Empire for treating people unfairly, a legitimate concern, but a government cannot please everyone. There will inevitably be arguments and conflicts

Giving people medicine for TB and not giving them food is like washing your hands and drying them in the dirt.

se dá excessivo relevo ao aspecto físico, esquecendo que o mal, quando irrompe, muito provavelmente tem origens psíquicas. E, se tem origens psíquicas, é a psique que devemos tratar, não o corpo.

El amor es como una enfermedad rebelde, que solo con el amor se cura, una enfermedad de la que el paciente no quiere curar, de la que el enfermo no quiere curar, de la que el enfermo no quiere recuperarse (...)

Patsy McDonald had the artificial brightness and dead eyes that go hand in hand with prescription antidepressants. They

Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in basements.

One of the unfortunate side effects of my medication is it hinders my ability to act crazy.

Psychiatrists use tortures you have never even heard of! They drug their patients and send huge jolts of electricity through their brains to destroy nerve responses! And that isn't all! At a whim, they take a steel probe, push it under the eyelids and scramble the prefrontal lobes! They have no intention of curing anyone. They are simply making it impossible for the victim to get well. Ever! AND THEY KNOW IT!

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

Have you tried this treatment for female baldness? I hear it's life-changing.

W]hat is this state, from women's point of view? The state is male in the feminist sense: the law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women. ... The state's formal norms recapitulate the male point of view on the level of design.