Medication Failure Quotes

People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those [psychiatric] drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's a good thing. It's how you degrade a society - by drugging the piss out of it.

I was diagnosed with depression at fourteen, but I couldn't find any medication that did anything for me other than making things worse.

Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs

So I take a little sleeping pill, pop it and realize nothing's happening - but something else was happening.

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

Most medications don't work effectively for a lot people.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.