Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.

I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.

Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.

CBT really helped me, and I would recommend it to anyone.

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.

No amount of therapy will take care of a chemical imbalance of the brain.

I've said before, I've always had difficulty with anxiety and depression. I've been on medication for it since I was about 18 years old, varying degrees of medication. I've had big ups and downs with it and very bad periods.

I'd definitely say I'm a depressive, someone who suffers from depression.

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.

When I am not acting, I am in depression, and then I do depression management.

I've always suffered from depression.

I have anxiety and have had depression in the past.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition to depression.

I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.

There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.