On Depression Quotes

“TODAY MANY PSYCHIATRISTS PRACTICE nonscientific symptom-oriented treatment, giving sedatives for insomnia, stimulants for fatigue or distractibility, anxiolytics for tension, antidepressants for depressive symptoms, and mood stabilizers for mere moodiness—leading to an excessive and ineffective polypharmacy.”
― S. Nassir Ghaemi, On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World

“If common sense would have clarified matters, then patients would not need to come to clinicians; they would have had their problems handled by their family or friends, by the standard application of commonsense thinking. Mental health clinicians should be biased against common sense, because anything that comes their way has already failed to respond to it. Besides”
― S. Nassir Ghaemi, On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World