Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

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

I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is that people tend to think that's enough.

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

I know people who are medicated and it's their favorite subject.

I've been in therapy my whole life.

When I was young, I couldn't process emotions well.

No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable

People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.

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.

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

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

My depression was mild, and I could treat it by myself and pick myself up again. But some people aren't that lucky.

I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me about new Zoloft or Prozac and now I just take three pills a day and I blend right into this horrible inbred corporate landscape.

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

My mother is schizophrenic. I would love to be brave enough to learn more about it. I try to understand her, I try to be positive about it. She can be so absent and tired by her medication; sometimes she's so lucid, funny, and smart.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else.