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Quotes About Treatment

When we can't make sense of the way we are being treated, we wind up distorting our view of ourselves and our relationships.
~ Rokelle Lerner
The flesh of the ox was medically prescribed to enhance vigour.
~ Romila Thapar
Thomas Insel, the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, has estimated that mental illness costs taxpayers $444 billion a year. Two-thirds of that total is eaten up by disability payments and lost productivity. Only a third is spent on medical care. "The way we pay for mental health today is the most expensive way possible," Insel has said. "We don't provide support early, so we end up paying for lifelong support.
~ Ron Powers
Taxpayers and legislators alike seem generally ignorant of the extent to which they are being soaked by the hidden costs of this parsimony. For instance, public care costs far less than public jails. The National Alliance on Mental Illness has estimated that for every $ 2,000 to $ 3,000 per year spent on treating the mentally ill, $ 50,000 is saved on incarceration costs.
~ Ron Powers
Trump treats women the way Roman culture treated them at the time of Jesus—as property, objectified and ridiculed. We see in Gospel stories Jesus' radical approach to treating women with honor and respect.
~ Ronald J. Sider
You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them," publisher Malcolm S. Forbes once said. In Hillary Clinton's case, because she is so nasty to agents and hostile toward law enforcement officers and military officers in general, agents consider being assigned to her detail a form of punishment. In fact, agents say being on Hillary Clinton's detail is the worst duty assignment in the Secret Service.
~ Ronald Kessler
A slave must at all costs be slightly, if not superlatively, contemptible. An assortment of chronic moral and physical defects justifies the horrible treatment he is getting. Then the earth turns more smoothly, for each man occupies the place he deserves. A person you make use of should
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The philosopher treats a question; like an illness.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austin required all reference to sickness be cut. Consistent with secrecy was the refusal of the Norcross sisters to let Todd see the letters in their possession. These remaining witnesses to Emily's ills in her teenage years, and to the treatment she endured in Boston in 1864 and 1865, shielded their cousin from biographical intrusion.
~ Lyndall Gordon
I hear there are now Knightsbridge clinics offering semicolonic irrigation – but for many it may be too late.
~ Lynne Truss
It may sound strange to laymen, but psychotherapists are familiar with the fact that people are routinely terrified by mental health.
~ M. Scott Peck
Assim é que cada louco furioso era trancado em uma alcova na própria casa, e não curado, mas descurado até que a morte o vinha desfraldar do benefício da vida.
~ Machado de Assis
Mas deveras estariam eles doido, e foram curados por mim, ou o que pareceu cura não foi mais do que a descoberta do perfeito desequilíbrio do cérebro?
~ Machado de Assis
Simão Bacamarte entendeu desde logo reformar tão ruim costume; pediu licença à câmara para agasalhar e tratar no edifício que ia construir todos os loucos de Itaguaí e das demais vilas e cidades, mediante um estipêndio, que a câmara lhe daria quando a família do enfermo o não pudesse fazer.
~ Machado de Assis
There's something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon's knife.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
if punishment worked to fight addiction, the condition itself couldn't exist.
~ Maia Szalavitz
addiction is the psychiatric disorder with the highest odds of recovery, not
~ Maia Szalavitz
You are mostly treated by others, the way you deserve.
~ Krishna Saagar
Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?
~ T.K. Naliaka
There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.
~ Solange nicole
In Peru, said Gonzalo, they cure madness by placing the madman next to a flowing river. The water flows, he throws stones into it, his feelings begin to flow again, and he is cured.
~ Anais Nin
The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.
~ Andreas Moritz
Instead, statins artificially lower the level of cholesterol in
~ Andreas Moritz
Most cancers are the result of repeatedly suppressing mild symptoms of illness such as a cold, pain, infection, or headache and treating them as if they were real diseases. The
~ Andreas Moritz