Quotes About Treatment

What we do to many factory farm animals is dishonorable in the same way that carelessly wounding an animal while hunting is dishonorable.

Fevers are a mixed blessing. They damage good tissues in the body, and some runaway fevers end up killing people. Also, for as long as people have had fevers, they've used herbal medicines (including ones containing the active ingredient in aspirin) to relieve them. But it's also possible that ancients knew something we don't: that helping along a fever may actually be beneficial.

Or they hope that I will find some sort of psychiatric explanation that can be treated so that the experiences can be stopped.

It bears repeating that no case has yet been reported where the alien abduction story masked another kind of traumatic experience. The reverse, however, has frequently been noted, including in my case experience – i.e. that a client presenting with a complaint of possible sexual abuse or trauma has discovered a history of alien abduction experiences, even when being treated by a therapist unfamiliar with the phenomenon and certainly not expecting that an abduction story would emerge.

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I described a program that is in wide use across the country to treat chronic pain. It bears repeating here that treating pain is not medically sound. Pain is a symptom, like fever. It has been elevated to the status of a separate disorder on the hypothesis that certain psychological factors cause the patient to exaggerate the pain. As stated before, this theory requires that one acknowledge the continuing presence of a structural reason for the pain—which is then exaggerated. In

I do not have evidence that this "knowledge therapy" will work with any of the other common allergies, and so I will say nothing about them, except if I had one of them, I would certainly zero in on emotional factors in my life. Incidentally, acknowledging the role of emotions does not preclude the use of conventional medical treatment.

I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.

Our treatment of Indians . . . still affects the national consciousness... It seems a basic requirement to study the history of Indian people. Only through this study can we as a nation do what must be done if our treatment of the American Indian is not to be marked down for all time as a national disgrace.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Commenting to reporters regarding polls—I've always been fond of dogs, and they are the one animal that knows the proper treatment to give to poles.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

In Britain, doctors now use exercise as a first-line treatment for depression, but it's vastly underutilized in the United States

exercise has yet to be embraced as a medical treatment. It doesn't simply raise serotonin or dopamine or norepinephrine. It adjusts all of them, to levels that, we can only presume, have been optimally programmed by evolution.

If everyone knew that exercise worked as well as Zoloft, I think we could put a real dent in the disease. Reading

In October of 2000 researchers from Duke University made the New York Times with a study showing that exercise is better than sertraline (Zoloft) at treating depression

exercise is as effective as certain medications for treating anxiety and depression.

Deseó haber llevado unos archivos mejor organizados, pero lo poco que había podido encontrar, las contadas notas y documentos que conservaba de ese período, eran todos de pacientes que habían seguido un tratamiento y, a su propio modo, con el paso de los años se sinceraron con él, dejando huella en su memoria. Tenía que encontrar a la persona que le había dejado una cicatriz.

It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.

Forty-three percent of mass public shooters were seeing mental health care professionals prior to their shootings (Figure 15). The New York Times came up with a slightly higher number when it analyzed mass public shootings from 1949 to 1999.46 The results confirm something that we have known for a long time — it is very difficult for psychiatric professionals to know who will actually commit mass murder.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

He's extremely dehydrated and we'll need to get fluids into him as soon as possible if he's to have a hope of surviving

If Miss Valmont's education, treatment, and utter seclusion were most valuable for her, why should she, yet so young, and removed from the common misfortunes of life, why should she be unhappy. You, Sir, may not have perceived this effect of your system; for, although shut within the same boundary and resident under one roof, you seldom see her, and when you do see, you do not study her.