132 Quotes About Treatment

You can love an addict, but not unconditionally, because the ultimate condition is for him to get “treatment.

No one knows automatically how you feel or how to treat you. You must open your mouth and verbalize it respectfully.

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that "once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict" and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?

Developing the treatment for High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) was reminiscent of the movie Lorenzo’s Oil, as the doctors failed me and I had to find the treatments myself.

I had two prescriptions for CPAP: 7 cmH2O and 13 cmH2O. Both made me feel lousy and the higher pressure caused Aerophagia. I eventually had to abandon the treatment as it was making me so sick.

You said that life is long and patients often have long careers in treatment. You said they may learn something from one doctor, carry it inside their heads, and, sometime in the future, be ready to do more. And that meanwhile you had played the role she was ready for.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.