#psychiatric

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

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#because #father #i #know #nurse

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#american #association #become #begins #conducted

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse. ↗

— Jo Brand

#also #audience #could #felt #had

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#busy #chains #child #component #concentration

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#detox #facility #first #get #got

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it! ↗

— Rod Steiger

#american #appreciated #association #because #believe

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#masquerading #medicine #psychiatric #testimony

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#doctor #draft #during #early #fifties

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ↗

— Ken Livingstone

#being #commons #enjoys #help #house