Ordinarily Well Quotes

“Doctors don’t go through life mentally integrating trial results; but any automaton who had regulated his practice that way would have been in danger of underprescribing.”
― Peter D. Kramer, Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants

“One needs to realize that the symptoms of vital depression are often not spontaneously mentioned … They are often concealed by other symptoms which may seem to be more severe. They may not come to the patient’s mind even with questioning. Patients admit to these symptoms only as the links of an integral whole in a dialogue that is free and comprehensible.”
― Peter D. Kramer, Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants

“It is not only medicine that maintains well-being. Once we function competently, the world may pitch in.”
― Peter D. Kramer, Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants

“Depression, in its insidious way, acts as a degenerative disease, harming nerve cells. Like”
― Peter D. Kramer, Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants

“Asked about their gravest cases, med students say, A patient who had been doing well in treatment lost his job, could not afford his medicine, resumed drinking, missed his clinic appointments, and after four months was brought to the emergency room by the police. Paralyzing melancholy has become an element in a tale of treatment interrupted.”
― Peter D. Kramer, Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants