262 Quotes About Psychiatry

Yet, I believe that my experience of depression has helped me to be a more humane and understanding therapist. Psychiatrists get depressed too, more often than other doctors. Being an expert in depression doesn't confer any immunity from it and I am aware that I don't have all the answers.

I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and yet it happens all the time... you go to the doctor with symptoms of profound grief and they push an antidepressant at you. We need to walk through our grief, not medicate it and shove it under the carpet like it wasn't there.

Les psychiatres, c'est très efficace. Moi, avant, je pissais au lit, j'avais honte. Je suis allé voir un psychiatre, je suis guéri. Maintenant, je pisse au lit, mais j'en suis fier.Psychiatrists are very efficient. Before, I used to wet the bed. I went to see a psychiatrist, and was cured. Now, when I wet the bed, I'm proud of it.

Oggi la mia anima è triste fino al corpo. Tutto me stesso mi duole: la memoria, gli occhi, le braccia.

They saw it on the newsChildren sent out to schoolTo get a brighter futureSent backDeadIt's a common sight in AmericaSo commonThat the children of the 9/11 generationWho grew up watching the Twin Towers fallNow cannot feel anything but a sinking feeling of hopelessness

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up

On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywhere my dream needs to go.

As the public anxieties about infectious disease outbreaksrose in recent years with the advent of SARS, N1H1 flu, Ebola,and Zika, we observed in awe how the public would react to animpending outbreak in their midst and how those public fearswould emerge and spread like, well, an epidemic. A wave ofpublic angst anticipating an outbreak would swell, crest, andthen subside, very much like the wave of the infection outbreakitself. In the wake of both waves, relief would follow.