Medications Quotes

“While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“No event is depressing. I may feel depressed; if so, I take responsibility.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“Today I hit rock bottom but didn’t busy myself with activity to take my mind off it, like I usually do. I allowed myself to sink as deep as possible. It’s like an infection: let it run its course and be done with it. Rising, I felt cleansed.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“I have an obligation to help eliminate the stigma attached to mental illness. When I’m feeling despondent and someone asks in a sincere way how I am, I have a duty to tell the truth. It’s no different from saying I have a bad cold. By speaking candidly, I give others permission to acknowledge their own mental illness, talk about it, and seek help. I must break the silence instead of treating my depression like a shameful character flaw.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“I feel like a violet standing alone in a vast meadow. When a cool, gentle breeze blows, I feel peaceful. If the wind turns strong and hot from the south, I plot suicide.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that what Roche’s tranquilizers really seemed to offer was a quick fix for the problem of “being female.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

“If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.”
― Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all medicating our fears and our pain!”
― Pax Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Dear Fang, With Love

“Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand

“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

“Overmedication: We're killing ourselves. Degrading -- often unseen & often unfelt -- our kidneys, livers, vital organs. Until it's too late. And we croak. Kidney failure, heart failure, liver failure. We do it to ourselves”
― David R. Wommack, Wommack's Life Lessons Learned: Reflections in a Mirror

“Doctors; all they do is make you worse and take all your money. That's a general statement.”
― Lisa Bedrick, On Christian Hot Topics

“If you put your faith in the modern health care system, then there is a very good chance that they will prematurely kill you.”
― Steven Magee

“My medications have changed throughout my recovery in both types amounts frequency When I started being administered meds, it was through my G-tube.”
― Amy Rankin, Nobody Thought I Could Do It, But I Showed Them, and So Can You!

“I found it concerning that the USA medical profession could not recognize the side effects of the medications that they had placed me on.”
― Steven Magee

“The majority of prescription medications that the doctors gave me degraded my health instead of improving it.”
― Steven Magee

“The sickest that I have ever been in life was when the doctors put me on a wide range of prescription medications and a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.”
― Steven Magee

“In 2019 it had emerged that I was having chronic fatigue reactions to over the counter medications and to prescription medications. I have a history of five years of regular company drug use atop the biologically toxic summit of Mauna Kea. This is called ‘Drug Intolerance’.”
― Steven Magee

“During COVID-19, you should keep a list of your medications and supplements with the dosages and times taken next to your bed in case you fall ill.”
― Steven Magee

“Toilet paper, tissues, and flu medications are the COVID-19 stock picks.”
― Steven Magee

“Fresh outdoor air inside of the home is one of nature’s many free medications.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“It always intrigues me that most medications have one or two ways to help you, and about a dozen side-effects that will kill you. Yet it seems that most political strategies are all side-effects and no solution.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“So many people get sucked into the medical profession and end up on thousands of dollars of prescription medications every month that keeps them sickly!”
― Steven Magee

“When I stopped going to doctors offices and taking their prescription medications, I recovered my health!”
― Steven Magee

“The only Thing that's better in Prison compared to the Psychiatry is the Taste of the Lunch – what is bad in the Psychiatry, are forced Medications/Vaccinations.”
― Sino Melo

“Medications are from Planet Earth, my Psychosia are not — and my Consciousness is not restricted/limited/bound to Earth.”
― Sino Melo

“Many Doctors are addicted to prescribing Medication(s) — I call it Grexogony.”
― Sino Melo

“Too many Doctors never had a Psychosis and never take their own Medications – that's like someone watching Basketball and automatically thinks that he can play the Game.. or even thinks he's an NBA Professional.”
― Sino Melo