Jim Carrey Quotes

I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.

There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.

Don't they give you happy pills in this place?

From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.

It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.

I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'

Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others.

If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.

For a long time, I've struggled very, very much with what people call treatment-resistant depression.

I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open, because it's still way too stigmatized.

Anti-depressants helped me get up in the morning and stopped me from being sad, but what they also do is stop you from being happy. So I was just in this numb state. I stopped laughing at jokes, and that's just not me.

While anti-depressants can work for some people, I became a little too reliant on them - if you forget to take one, you feel awful.

As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?

The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away

What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.