Leonard Cohen Quotes

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

Unfortunately, I think depression and anxiety are really hard to live with. And what people don't need is to feel bad about themselves because they decide to go on medication.

I take antidepressants, which I was embarrassed about for a long time, but it keeps me going.

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

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.

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.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.

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.'

Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both.

My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

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.

If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.

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.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.

With sadness specifically, in America you read about people medicating to avoid sadness. They don't want to experience sadness, and yet it's such a vital part of being human.

I am on medication - I've talked about that before - just to help my anxiety, so I'm not depressed all the time.

Going to the doctors - for me that was quite brave, taking that first step. That was a bit scary, saying that I wanted to go on anti-depressants.

I've been taking medication for depression and anxiety ever since I was a teenager and I've had treatment for both.