Quotes About Antidepressants

#1. Medications can lower a woman's sex drive and interfere with a woman's ability to climax. These medications include antidepressants, birth control pills and hormone medications. I only know of three antidepressants that do not interfere with a woman's sexual function.

Drew Pinsky

#2. research has shown that depressed patients without prior histories of abuse or neglect tend to respond much better to antidepressants than patients with those backgrounds.17)

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#3. 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.

Christopher Moore

#4. Lord. How many antidepressants can one person take? However much it is, I'm going to need the maximum dose if I make it out of this alive. -Dani Springman.

Baylee Crush

#5. When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate. You think everything's going to be horrible, so it usually is.

Lewis Black

#6. They just tested the tap water in Los Angeles and they found traces of estrogen and antidepressants in the tap water. So it's nice to know my son's going to grow up and have huge breasts but it's not going to bother him that much.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#7. Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

Irving Kirsch

#8. The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.

Irving Kirsch

#9. I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.

John Elder Robison

#10. The drug, the Sadness, is working, breaking the horrible, dull, boring, mind-numbing happiness imposed on him and everyone else in NewLand by the antidepressants in the city's water supply.

Pleasefindthis

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. I was diagnosed with ADD - see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons - and manic depression. So I was prescribed Ritalin for the ADD, and for the manic imbalances I was prescribed mostly benzodiazepines, which I loved, and antidepressants.

Pete Wentz

#13. Patsy McDonald had the artificial brightness and dead eyes that go hand in hand with prescription antidepressants. They

Val McDermid

#14. I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people.

Rachel Machacek

#15. And the next time I did school stuff in the middle of the night, I just did it in my closet with the door locked. Honestly, what is wrong with this country when striving for excellence means you need antidepressants?

Rachel Hawkins

#16. Illegal drugs are better for you than the legal stuff. How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral, or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?

Hanif Kureishi

#17. 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.

Helen Fisher

#18. All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"

Ellen DeGeneres

#19. Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.

Irving Kirsch

#20. Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.

Irving Kirsch

#21. Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

Paul Greengard

#22. We had the Belle Epoque. Now we have the Botox Epoque, permeated by plastic emotions from antidepressants and plastic veneers from collagen, silicone, cosmetic surgery and Botox.

Maureen Dowd

#23. Dad told me, 'Mommy doesn't need antidepressants, you see. She needs flowers and sometimes she needs antiques.

Katherine Taylor

#24. I balked at trying antidepressants, I just couldn't see myself taking pills to try to be less of a fraud.

David Foster Wallace

#25. The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded ... [yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled ... increased nearly two and a half times.

Marcia Angell

#26. These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#27. The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models

Herb Pardes

#28. Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

David Wong

#29. The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#30. When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.

Bradford Cox

#31. Antidepressants were swimming in the rivers, and our bloodstreams were just as polluted as the waterways.

Karen Thompson Walker

#32. I definitely think that prescription drugs, like antidepressants, are prescribed so cavalierly, anyone can get anything, but I need it. I do think that it needs to work hand and hand with therapy.

Sarah Silverman

#33. Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

Adam Ant

#34. Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

Irving Kirsch

#35. Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

Libba Bray

#36. We have pills for headaches. We have antidepressants for sadness. We had God for believers. We have nothing for autism.

Lisa Genova

#37. Me: Yes, I'd like some colon cleanse. It's something that cleans you out so your antidepressants work better.
Pharmacist: I think you're using your antidepressants wrong. They go in your mouth.

Jenny Lawson

#38. Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.

Francesca Lia Block

#39. The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because you worry about your purse.

Mico Monsalve

#40. Even if we accept the view that biochemical imbalances may contribute to depression and suicide, it is a mistake to assume that the biochemical aspect of the problem is entirely within the victim. It is also partly within the physiological makeup of the people around the suicide.

David L. Conroy

#41. 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.

Julie Holland

#42. Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

Colson Whitehead