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Quotes About Treatment

They wonder what is wrong with our country, but isn't it fairly obvious that if children are being treated like animals instead of rational beings, as adults they'll respond like monkeys?
~ Wen Spencer
It was humiliating. Syrians were treated like a burden. By the time I finished university in 2013, I was scared shitless to stay in the Arab world.
~ Wendy Pearlman
Every brain is different. And so must be every course of therapy.
~ Wendy Walker
It's painful to recall, but I'm not ashamed, because all those thoughts—which I thankfully don't have anymore, thanks to medical science and therapy—were not my fault any more than the allergies that clog my sinuses when the trees in my neighborhood start doin' it every spring are my fault. It's just part of who I am. It's part of how my brain is wired, and because I know that, I can medically treat it, instead of being a victim of it.
~ Wil Wheaton
In terms of noise, psychiatry is an extreme case.
~ Daniel Kahneman
A study of nearly seven hundred thousand primary care visits, for instance, showed that physicians are significantly more likely to prescribe opioids at the end of a long day.
~ Daniel Kahneman
We were told that a strong attraction to a patient with a repeated history of failed treatment is a danger sign—like the fins on the parallel lines. It is an illusion—a cognitive illusion—and I (System 2) was taught how to recognize it and advised not to believe it or act on it. The question that is most often asked
~ Daniel Kahneman
time meet a patient who shares a disturbing tale of multiple mistakes in his previous treatment. He has been seen by several clinicians, and
~ Daniel Kahneman
Level noise is when judges show different levels of severity. Pattern noise is when they disagree with one another on which defendants deserve more severe or more lenient treatment. And part of pattern noise is occasion noise—when judges disagree with themselves.
~ Daniel Kahneman
A large dose of niacin is one of the most rapid and reliable ways to pull a person out of a bad trip on psychedelic drugs.
~ Daniel P. Reid
Di tutto, ai libri facciamo subire di tutto. Ma solo il modo in cui gli altri li maltrattano ci ferisce...
~ Daniel Pennac
There is no evidence of spontaneous remission or integration of personality alters without mental health treatment. Therapy is long-term and requires the establishment of a strong therapeutic relationship with the individual.
~ Danny Wedding
Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
~ Dario Fo
proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.
~ Darrell Huff
As Henry G. Felsen, a humorist and no medical authority, pointed out quite a while ago, proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.
~ Darrell Huff
Many a great, if fleeting, medical discovery has been launched similarly. "Make haste," as one physician put it, "to use a new remedy before it is too late." The guilt does not always lie with the medical profession alone. Public pressure and hasty journalism often launch a treatment that is unproved, particularly when the demand is great and the statistical background hazy. So
~ Darrell Huff
In other words, where Borg and Crossan stress the critique of large political structures with the values of justice and nonviolence, Jesus' teaching appears to address the local structures of relation-ships, neighbors, and manner of worship before God, while under-scoring love of one's neighbor and calling for just treatment of others.
~ Darrell L. Bock
When chickens or turkey hens are used to hatch duck eggs, they should be treated for lice and mites several days before their setting chores commence.
~ Dave Holderread
David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.
~ Dave Pelzer
When you're under the influence of this belief, you tend to act as if the simple act of worrying can change the future, that it might prevent bad events from happening that would have otherwise happened. I'm not referring here to situations in which your thoughts lead you to take action, and those actions influence the future. Here I mean that people treat worry itself as something that can affect the future.
~ David A. Carbonell
[Psychiatric] drugs have so many side effects because using them to treat a complex psychiatric disorder is a bit like trying to change your engine oil by opening a can and pouring it all over the engine block. Some of it will dribble into the right place, but a lot of it will do more harm than good.
~ David Anderson

The brain is not a bag of chemical soup, and it's a mistake to try to treat complex psychiatric disorders just by changing the flavor.

~ David Anderson
Christian psychiatrists have examined exorcism for the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, although they do not report good results with these conditions.
~ David B. Biebel
Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
~ James Bryce