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Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

I definitely think that prescription drugs, like antidepressants, are prescribed so cavalierly, anyone can get anything, but I need it. I do think that it needs to work hand and hand with therapy.

I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.