psychiatric intervention Quotes

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.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those goddamn crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

People who have visions should go see a doctor.

We're talking about the chemical lobotomy. We're talking about the chemical straightjacketing of our children.

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

If I lose my mind again and I tell you that I'm thinking of getting married, I want you to put me in a straight jacket and take me to the beach at high tide.

If Myrnin pokes his crazy head up before then, call me and try to keep him, you know, stable.' 'Is he UNstable?' 'I don't know, how can I tell? You're the crazy whisperer!' She had a point. Claire couldn't help but smile about that.

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.