Julie Holland Quotes

#1. In our digital distraction we've lost a basic truth: fresh air, sunlight, and movement make us feel better.

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#2. Pay attention to what your body is telling you about your own wants and needs. Find the rhythms in your cycles. There is wisdom in our biology. Above all, do what feels best. Making healthy choices feels good. This is not deprivation. It is nourishment on all levels. It is the opposite of neglect.

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#3. SSRIs augment social dominance behaviors, elevating an animal's status in the hierarchy. So they may well help women get along, and even get ahead, in the workplace, but at what cost?

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#4. Drug companies are spending billions of dollars to turn normal human experiences like fear or sadness into medical diseases. They aren't developing cures; they're creating customers.

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#5. Medication can make a bad situation tolerable and mask the need for change.

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#6. And girls who hold on to their assertiveness and self-esteem are less likely to grow up to be depressed women.

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#7. The problem with taking your happy pills and puttering along as before is that it's no better than sweeping dirt under the carpet. I want you to take that rug out back and beat the hell out of it.

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#8. I was enraptured by the brain and how it could misfire, but it wasn't just the hardware that intrigued me, it was the software with the bugs.

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#9. emblazoned with the name of a new antipsychotic

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#10. We are not men. We are women. We feel more deeply, express our emotions more frequently, and get moody monthly. It's normal. It's nature's way. And we don't necessarily have to medicate away the essence of who we are to make others more comfortable.

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#11. childish and irrational, triggered by all of my resentments toward Daniel,

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#12. In life, the people whom you find the most challenging inevitably are the ones who have the most to teach you.

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