Quotes About Treatment

Mental illness is real illness

Depression claims more years than war, cancer, and AIDS put together. Other illnesses, from alcoholism to heart disease, mask depression when it causes them; if one takes that into consideration, depression may be the biggest killer on earth. Treatments

You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it.

To take medication as part of the battle is to battle fiercely, and to refuse it would be as ludicrously self-destructive as entering a modern war on horseback. It is not weak to take medications; it does not mean that you can't cope with your personal life; it is courageous.

If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it even when you have ceased to experience it; the limited of experience that is achieved with chemical pills is not tantamount to a cure.

As organs go, the brain is quite an important one, and its malfunctions should be addressed accordingly. Chemistry

To take medication as part of the battle is to battle fiercely, and to refuse it would be as ludicrously self-destructive as entering a modern war on horseback. It is not weak to take medications; it does not mean that you can't cope with your personal life; it is courageous. Nor is it weak to seek help from a wise therapist.

You say that you really don't want to get sick again. But wellness is still, in this area, associated not with achieving control of your problem, but with discontinuation of medication: "Well, I sure hope you get off sometime soon," they say.

I deplore the cynics who keep suffering patients from the essentially benign cures that might give them back their lives.

At least three times as many mentally ill people are in jail as are in hospitals.

An untreated severe cleft palate can have dire consequences and is undeniably a disability. But there is no simple equation whereby the existence of the fix means that the condition is no longer a disability; rectifying a condition is not the same thing as forestalling

The problem of depression among the poor leads naturally into specific politics. We legislate ideas of illness and treatment in and out of existence.

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She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better.

ANTHELMINTHICK  (ANTHELMI'NTHICK)   adj.[   against, and eklimho, a worm.]That which kills worms.

ANTHONY'S [only in 1755 edition] (A'NTHONY'S)  FIRE.n.s.A kind of erysipelas.   

It's our job to tell them that imperfect health is and always has been perfect health, and that most of the things that go wrong with their bodies we can't do much about.

El negocio de la clínica no era curar a la gente de sus males, sino esculcarla hasta encontrarle nuevas cosas que curar.

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.

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But the best-treated, most favored and intelligent part of any society is often the most ungrateful. Ingratitude, however, is its social function.

Treatment for malignancies had become only a little better than the tortures of a CIA black site.

No one is going to know about this, or should I be more explicit?" "Yes," she replied sharply. "I am brilliantly cunning and stupidly dense at the same time.Do continue treating me like a child." "Your sarcasm is uncalled-for." "I disagree.Actually,I will probably disagree with you henceforth whether I agree with you or not! I can behave like a child if you insist on treating me like one.

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