Quotes About Treatment

Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.

doctor to stout patient: You've been swallowing your food again.

Reduce inflammation to treat the root of many issues. If your gut isn't working right it can cause so many other issues.

There must be something to acupuncture - after all you never see any sick porcupines.

Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication

Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

Bibliotherapy is an inexpensive treatment not bound by time or place.

I don't mind functional medicine. I suppose it has to be better than dysfunctional medicine.

My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.

As a judge, when I saw veterans in legal trouble, I created the state's first veterans court to help them get treatment and get back on their feet.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.

Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.