#inhibit

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic, and unschooled. To understand depression as a call for life-changes is not profitable. Stagnation is not a medical term. The 17.5 million Americans diagnosed as suffering a major depression in 1997 were mostly damned. (Psychobiological examinations confuse cause and symptom.) Deficient serotonergic functioning, ventral prefrontal cerebral cortex, dis-inhibition of impulsive-aggressive behavior, blah blah blah: the medical lexicon boils emotion from human being. Go take a drug, the doctor says. Pain is a biochemical phenomenon. Erase all memory. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#biochemical-phenomenon #cause-and-symptom #disinhibition #doctors #drugs

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#inhibition #more #pernicious #result #than

Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#dora-carrington #expectations #identification #inhibitions #morality

I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#chances #end-all #fan #freddie #freddie mercury

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#curious #display #drunk #inhibitions #insane

The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#acknowledged #armed #challenge #continued #does

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#free #i #i love #inhibition #judgement

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#displeasure #distorted #examination #havens #inhibited

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#ever #experience #found #i #ignorance

If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#be happy #each #everyone #get #happy