Depressants Quotes

• If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Body, Causes, Serious

  Interview with Sloane Crosley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 3, 2013.

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• Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant

  Steven Tyler

  Cheer, Drug, Saying No

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• Fear was my main emotion until I started taking anti-depressant medication. And I was one of the people where, as I got older, the fear got worse and worse. So I can really relate to an animal getting, you know, scared and traumatized.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, People, Emotion

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

  Frederick Exley

  Men, Drunk, Sobriety

  Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”

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• I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

  Temple Grandin

  Cycling, Years, Nerves

  Interview with Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Three, World, Materialism

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

  Adam Ant

  Guitar, Years, May

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• Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beer, People, Hocus Pocus

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.193, Penguin

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• The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.

  Walter Kirn

  House, Pills, Would Be

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• Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.

  Christy Turlington

  Nicotine, Feels, Stimulants

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• These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants and a cellphone book.

  Courtney Love

  Book, Phones, Cells

  "Courtney Love: ‘I’d Like to Be Trusted Again.’". Interview with Eric Wilson, www.nytimes.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Following the school shootings, Hillary and Tipper Gore, as well as their husbands, got together for the first White House conference on mental health. Because of her interest in mental health and her own problem with anti-depressants, Tipper had been made the expert, the psychiatric consultant to the president, duly designated.

  Peter Breggin

  Husband, School, White

  Source: whale.to

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• We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Dream, Crazy, Ideas

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• But its crazy - like ten percent a year increase of children taking fucking anti-depressants. Pre-schoolers are like, the most prescribed. That makes me so mad!

  Emily Haines

  Children, Crazy, Years

  "Metric’s Emily Haines Sings Political". Interview with Stewart Smith and William Wallace, tweedmag.com. July 24, 2004.

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• Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany... After, I'm guessing, amnesia.

  Emo Philips

  Germany, Saint, Guessing

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• I am not embarrassed to say that when I was at my worst I took anti-depressants because I think people need to hear that. I think if you are in a dark place where you can't pull yourself out, you may need to ask for help.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.

  Mike Mills

  Anxiety, Pills, Watches

  "'Thin Blue Line' Piqued Mike Mills Movie Interest". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 3, 2012.

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• The people who get more fame, who get more money, more often than not they are miserable, insecure and on anti-depressants. It's strange that everyone keeps buying into this idea that more success is good, that more fame is good, that more money is good. Yet, we look at the people who have more success, more fame, more money and they're miserable.

  Moby

  Insecure, Ideas, People

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• When I was out of work when I first moved to L.A., one of the first things my husband and I did was buy season's passes to Disney and whenever I was bummed out about work, we would go to Space Mountain, and it was like a physical injection of anti-depressants.

  Melissa Rauch

  Husband, Space, Mountain

  "Talking About Carnivals with Melissa Rauch". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. March 21, 2013.

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• I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

  Jack Dee

  Long, Function, Wells

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