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

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Vices, Enjoyment

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• 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.

  Keys, Creating, Soul

  FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Feb 02, 2017

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• It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Believe, Doctors, Nurse

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (2013). “How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick”, p.16, PublicAffairs

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• The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.

  Nan Hayworth

  Government, Profound, Decision

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• I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.

  Nadya Suleman

  Years, Trying, Seven

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.

  David Hockney

  People, Choices, Drug

  "Interview: Jasper Gerard meets David Hockney". www.thetimes.co.uk. October 02, 2005.

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• If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

  Pol Pot

  Disease, Dose, Ifs

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• I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Running, Sleep, Thinking

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• The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives. Unlike in the eras of Vincent Van Gogh and Abraham Lincoln, there is now professional help available for those who suffer from emotional illness. Treatment may require therapy or even medication, but hope is now available every single day in practically every city in the civilized world.

  David J. Lieberman

  Emotional, Cities, Psychology

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.161, David Lieberman

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• In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.

  Carre Otis

  Past, Hopeful, Next

  "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression. It does not call for medication. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Sleep, Phones, Cells

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• I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.

  Carrie Fisher

  New York, Simple, Drug Use

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

  Maeve Binchy

  Mean, Blood, Pills

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• Americas health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

  Paul Gillmor

  Country, Doctors, Years

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• I dont have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.

  Gail Devers

  Iodine, Treatment, Thyroid

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• 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

  Taken, Two, Care

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

  Herb Pardes

  Animal, Discovery, Anxiety

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• Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are no drugs that improve mental function, self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects mental processes does so by impairing them.

  Peter Breggin

  Self, Drug, Understanding

  Peter Breggin, David Cohen (2007). “Your Drug May Be Your Problem, Revised Edition: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications”, p.94, Da Capo Press

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

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Powerful, Emotional, Attachment

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• They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.

  Will Christopher Baer

  Wall, Numbness, Names

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• What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

  Peter D. Kramer

  Taken, Artist, What If

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• December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.

  Max Lucado

  Loss, Insomnia, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Pain, Needs, Honest

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", October 10, 2003.

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• The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

  Thomas Szasz

  War, Self, Two

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• There are things I've always wanted to do. Things I may not be able to do, but I never really ruled them out - like running a marathon. It's all a matter of timing for me. I suppose I could probably do it if I planned it out right with medication. I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Goal, May

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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