Unshrunk Quotes

“They convince us we have to look a certain way, talk a certain way, perform a certain way, I thought. We’re just puppets.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“How far we are from our primal nature, how much our current way of life has disconnected us from ourselves.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“Klonopin’s label now clearly states that “the continued use of benzodiazepines, including Klonopin, may lead to clinically significant physical dependence” and that “abrupt discontinuation or rapid dosage reduction…after continued use may precipitate acute withdrawal reactions, which can be life-threatening.”)”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“couldn’t fathom how it was possible that so many of us could be prescribed psychiatric drugs for so many years based on essentially zero scientific evidence for long-term use.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“according to the American Psychiatric Association, a mother “still” grieving the loss of her child more than two weeks out now meets the criteria for a major depression diagnosis and antidepressant treatment?”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy,”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“The best way to sum up this phase of psychiatric drug withdrawal is that the simple fact of life happening around me was enough to send my central nervous system into full-blown panic mode.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“This was a wholly organic, commonsensical process: I bought no self-help books and sought no practitioners, protocols, supplements, products, or formulaic practices to teach me. Instead, I looked inward and listened.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“I was coming to understand that I was still her. That little girl who believed in the possibility of anything was me.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“I’d spent most of my life assuming that discomfort was a problem to be fixed, numbed, or run away from—that I needed to do something whenever I felt sad or anxious or angry or headachy or otherwise uncomfortable: seek out some kind of professional help or service, take pills, eat something, buy something, get drunk, scroll through a newsfeed, distract myself with television.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“For thousands of years, we wrote poems and plays and made music and comedy and art out of our suffering that we shared with one another in community; today we take it to a doctor and the pharmacy under the false premise that it can and must be obliterated.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“we’re growing ever more unwell in mind, body, and spirit, and the business of health is thriving.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“the art of leaning into the darkness of being alive, instead of denying it.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“opportunities to get out of my own head and be there for someone else.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“The experience infused not just my every square inch but all that I could see, hear, taste, smell, touch; all that I believed and valued and thought about. Withdrawal hijacked my reality without my realizing”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“So much of the withdrawal experience is unspeakable: there are simply no words in the English language that come close to capturing its otherworldly nature.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance