{"quotes":[{"text":"I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.","author":"Antonin Artaud","tags":["artaud","insane-asylum","mental-health","psychiatrist","suicidal","suicide"],"id":77904,"author_id":"Antonin+Artaud"},{"text":"The very word, “sin,” which seems to have disappeared, was once a proud word. It was once a strong word, an ominous and serious word. … But the word went away. It has almost disappeared — the word, along with the notion. Why? Doesn’t anyone sin anymore? Doesn’t anyone believe in sin?","author":"Karl Menninger","tags":["karl-menninger","psychiatrist","sin"],"id":125893,"author_id":"Karl+Menninger"},{"text":"Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.","author":"Samuel Goldwyn","tags":["man","head","psychiatrist "],"id":153651,"author_id":"Samuel+Goldwyn"},{"text":"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.","author":"Linda Gask","tags":["depression","psychiatrist","psychiatry"],"id":180073,"author_id":"Linda+Gask"},{"text":"Never diagnosed the enemy before.","author":"Henry V. O'Neil","tags":["military-science-fiction","psychiatrist","psychoanalyst","survival","war-in-space"],"id":187201,"author_id":"Henry+V.+O%27Neil"},{"text":"Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["acceptance","agendas","authenticity","belief","bias","bigotry","bullying","communication","compassion","conversation","cyber-bullying","discernment","distortion","emotion","emotionless","empathy","explanations","faith","fear","fearful","fearless","fearlessness","feeling","feelings","forgiveness","friendship","genuine","gossip","grace","hear-say","heart","honesty","humanity","humans","individuals","information","judgment","libel","love","media","mercy","misunderstanding","misunderstood","news","open-heart","open-mind","peace","people","personal","politics","prejudgment","prejudice","propaganda","prosperity","psychiatrist","psychology","racism","relationship","ridicule","sincerity","slander","soul","soulful","soulless","success","sympathy","technology","trust","trustful","trustworthiness","truth","understanding","understanding-others"],"id":206619,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Some of the most evil human beings in the world are psychiatrists. Not all psychiatrists. Some psychiatrists are selfless, caring people who really want to help. But the sad truth is that in today's society, mental health isn't a science. It's an industry. Ritalin, Zoloft, Prozac, Lexapro, Resperidone, happy pills that are supposed to 'normalize' the behavior of our families, our colleagues, our friends - tell me that doesn't sound the least bit creepy! Mental health is subjective. To us, a little girl talking to her pretend friends instead of other children might just be harmless playing around. To a psychiatrist, it's a financial opportunity. Automatically, the kid could be swept up in a sea of labels. 'not talking to other kids? Okay, she's asocial!' or 'imaginary friends? Bingo, she has schizophrenia!' I'm not saying in any way that schizophrenia and social disorders aren't real. But the alarming number of people, especially children, who seem to have these 'illnesses' and need to be medicated or locked up... It's horrifying. The psychiatrists get their prestigious reputation and their money to burn. The drug companies get fast cash and a chance to claim that they've discovered a wonder-drug, capable of 'curing' anyone who might be a burden on society... That's what it's all about. It's not about really talking to these troubled people and finding out what they need. It's about giving them a pill that fits a pattern, a weapon to normalize people who might make society uncomfortable. The psychiatrists get their weapon. Today's generations get cheated out of their childhoods. The mental health industry takes the world's most vulnerable people and messes with their heads, giving them controlled substances just because they don't fit the normal puzzle. And sadly, it's more or less going to get worse in this rapidly advancing century.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["asocial","child-innocence","childhood","colleague","creepy","crime","disorder","drug-company","drugs","ethics","evil","family","friend","happy-pill","human-rights","imaginary-friend","industry","innocence","innocence-lost","lexapro","little-girl","mental-health","mental-illness","morals","normal","normalize","overactive-imagination","pretend","prozac","psychiatrist","psychiatry","psychologist","psychology","resperidone","ritalin","schizophrenia","science","social-issue","social-misfit","stigma","subjective","weapon","wrong","zoloft"],"id":243920,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.","author":"Philip K. Dick","tags":["honesty","insanity","mental-health","psychiatrist","sanity"],"id":260823,"author_id":"Philip+K.+Dick"},{"text":"What I do know is that when a person is first asked to explain what is wrong, they may find it almost impossible to articulate exactly what the problem is. They may not yet have matched words to the feelings they can sense in the hidden rooms of their mind. They may still have no clear ideas about the 'what', 'why' or 'how' relating to the origins of their difficulties. Instead of words, their angst may be expressed in behaviour which may be hard for them, or anyone else, to make sense of and can manifest itself as irritability, anger or withdrawal. Sometimes they will delay seeking help until they are in a state of crisis. It's not easy to ask; I struggled at first, too.","author":"Linda Gask","tags":["depression","psychiatrist","psychiatry"],"id":262884,"author_id":"Linda+Gask"},{"text":"My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.","author":"Wayne Gerard Trotman","tags":["delusional","delusions","drugs","funny","mother","psychiatrist","psychiatry","psychoanalysis","psychology","sedatives"],"id":301505,"author_id":"Wayne+Gerard+Trotman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}