Quotes About Self Medication

#1. Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in ... well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication.

Patrick Symmes

#2. For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.

Betty Ford

#3. Remember if you're already taking medication for any of these conditions, make sure to consult your physician about these remedies in order to make sure there are no drug interactions. It's important that you NEVER abruptly stop taking any

Innana Canon

#4. In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.

Thomas Sowell

#5. I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.

Gail Devers

#6. The key to creating health is figuring out the cause of the problem and then providing the right conditions for the body and soul to thrive. It isn't taking another medication.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#7. As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal.

Montel Williams

#8. Render unto meditation the things that are meditation's, and unto medication the things that are medication's.

Barry Graham

#9. The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

Pauline Hanson

#10. Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't sure which was more excruciating-living with that horrible absence, or being with him again.

Rick Riordan

#12. He fulfilled the bipolar checklist. See? And so they gave him some pretty heavy-duty medication. It slowed him way down, to a drooling fat kid. And they declared the meds a success." It

Jon Ronson

#13. Your ability to survive anything that gets thrown at you sometimes leaves the rest of us swallowing ulcer medication for days afterward. I don't like the taste of Maalox.

Patricia Briggs

#14. When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.

Terry Bradshaw

#15. Patient sees [lithium] medication as a promise of a cure, and a means of suicide if it doesn't work. She fears that by taking it she will risk her last resort

Kay Redfield Jamison

#16. I have been addicted to it, and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping, and it's a form of self-medication, and I was smoking up to 15 to 20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco.

Lady Gaga

#17. It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

Ville Valo

#19. Exercise is a powerful weapon and scientifically proven to be as effective at battling depression as medication is---with fewer side effects.

Jay Danek

#20. Irony of the day: arthritis medication with a cap that old people can't get off, because of their arthritis.

Kelli Jae Baeli

#21. The Doctor once more gave me a bunch of medication and checked on my ribs. "Done with the motherfucker," he said, showing me his back as he headed toward the door.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#22. During my mental illness, thank God, my grandma was my human rescuer and angel, she ask me to stop taking the medication, leading to the recovering.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. The medication given during mental-ill health makes you rather weaker in body, in soul and in spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. There is no harm taking medication as it is God-given ability or utilizing the wisdom God gives to doctors and to prepare medications. But it also your responsibility to build faith for healing while using medication, and you must do that.

Paul Silway

#25. Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.

Gary Chapman

#26. Sometimes miracles look like instant healing; and other times, miracles look like medication and patience and discipline.

Sarah Bessey

#27. When it comes to psychopaths, there is no medication. There is no treatment. There is no cure. There are only prisons. - JENI GREGORY, PHD, LICSW, CCM, CCTP

Robert Dugoni

#28. Moms aren't the best audience for medication humor.

David Levithan

#29. I'm a genius! Geniuses don't NEED medication!

Gary Smith

#30. People like you are the reason People like me need medication.

Cheyenne McCray

#31. I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

Dana Hill

#32. In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd.

Eckhart Tolle

#33. I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.

Michael J. Fox

#34. Dr. Sankhala is skilled in victimisation novel metastatic tumor medication for patients with advanced malignancies.

Cancercenter

#35. I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

Rima Fakih

#36. Courtney was a doctor herself. She diagnosed herself with Schizophrenia years ago, but didn't take any medication. The point of her barely leaving her home or having limited conversations with people, was to keep her mood swings under control.

Nako

#37. Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

Marc Maron

#38. ...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)

Robert Whitaker

#39. Is it time for your medication or mine?

Jimmy Buffett

#40. Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.

Stefan Molyneux

#41. 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

#42. I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be a craven coward and get through. You have to stay on your medication and take your treatments, that's all.

Harvey Pekar

#43. I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for.

Liz Miller

#44. The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

Daniel Goleman

#45. Sacred meditation is greatest medicine for the body, soul and spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. Pseudoephedrine and ephedrine (found in over-the-counter cold and allergy medication) may inhibit lactation, as well.

Brette McWhorter Sember

#47. Loose diagnosis is causing a national drug overdose of medication. Six percent of our people are addicted to prescription drugs, and there are now more emergency room visits and deaths due to legal prescription drugs than to illegal street drugs.6

Allen Frances

#48. Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It's a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one.

Chaka Khan

#49. I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

Evel Knievel

#50. In cases where treatment with medication is warranted, work on family interactions will help to reduce symptom severity and promote better functioning in the long run.

Joseph A. Micucci

#51. I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.

Sarah Hepola

#52. Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.

Vironika Tugaleva

#53. NOTE TO SELF: Refusing pain medication when someone is forcibly snapping your bone back into place is a bad fucking idea. Especially when it takes multiple tries. If the flash of white light I saw was any indication, the bastards tried to kill me.

Anna Paige

#54. Add to that cauldron an ever increasing measure of cheap vodka--a form of self-medication that quelled the inner scream but amplified the outer crazy--and you get a picture of the mother I left behind.

Allen Eskens

#55. Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

#56. The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.

Vironika Tugaleva

#57. Writing isn't a career choice. It's self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

Alain De Botton

#58. For years, I tried medication, blade, work, escape, all attempts to drown out that incessant, reverberating drum of self-rejection.

Ann Voskamp

#59. There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication.

Miriam Toews

#60. Isn't it obvious in in today's world from people's preoccupation with self-medication, drug and alcohol use, rationalization and avoidance distraction that the truth doesn't just hurt, it's extremely painful.

James Turner

#61. Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?

James Turner

#62. Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.

Mason Cooley

#63. It does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go.

Charles Bukowski

#64. What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don't need to be wasted on naming things.

Doug Cooper