Quotes About Therapy

She'd been a psychologist in Montreal, until she'd realized most of her clients didn't really want to get better. They wanted a pill and reassurance that whatever was wrong wasn't their fault. So Myrna had chucked it all. She'd

When people are really depressed, they don't have the energy to kill themselves," said Myrna, who had once been a therapist in Montreal. "But as soon as they start feeling a little better, their energy comes back. They're still depressed, but now they can act.

most of her clients didn't really want to get better. They wanted a pill and reassurance that whatever was wrong wasn't their fault.

I was in therapy with Reich for three years and it was body therapy mostly. We didn't do much talking and focused on breathing. Well, breathing is the most important thing in life. You don't breathe, you don't have any life! And he knew something about breathing.

Los psiquiatras se centran demasiado en la escena primaria y la privación preedípica, me parece, e ignoran el trauma de la escuela y los otros niños, que son crueles y despiadados

I have occasionally thought that some [TV] hosts have needed treatment, and some of these hosts have even admitted they could benefit from therapy. Having said that, I think most people can benefit from treatment. Those who need it and refuse to get it generally have the most "issues."

I'm sure I've dated my share of loonies in the past. Sometimes I realized it early on and sometimes not that fast. Love can be blinding, even for therapists. Plus, crazy can be fun sometimes. Don't you think?! Maybe that's just me!

On the second Thursday of the month, Mrs. Dombrowski brings her dead husband to our therapy group.

not for the first time I think that someone's enterprising idea of therapy is another person's frustrated hell.

metaraminol, an adrenaline-like drug used to treat low blood pressure.

I have found that supplemental zinc, added to the antidepression protocol, has been extremely effective, especially in speeding up the response to therapy and ameliorating anxiety associated with depression or anxious depression

There is an absolutist quality to rage. Being angry all the time and overreacting to little things may be a sign that there is a deeper rage that needs to be worked on.

Most people have a way to go in terms of developing intimacy and connecting skills when they get married or enter a long-term relationship. But the great thing about a committed relationship is that the relationship itself is a form of therapy. If both partners are committed, most of their differences can be worked out and even appreciated. Shame as the root feeling of humility allows each partner to appreciate and accept the other's foibles and idiosyncrasies.

Jung said it well: "All our neuroses are substitutes for legitimate suffering.

relationship itself is a form of therapy.

Until this original pain is embraced and worked through, the person cannot recover from the effects of the violation. Without doing their original pain grieving, they cannot find and reclaim their wonder child.

The spiritual wound can be healed. But it must be done by grieving, and that is painful.

The wounded inner child is filled with unresolved energy resulting from the sadness of childhood trauma. One of the reasons we have sadness is to complete painful events of the past, so that our energy can be available for the present.

You can't heal what you don't feel.

Families are as sick as their toxic shame secrets.

There is almost always low-grade anger and depression in a dysfunctional family.

One of the things we know about grief resolution is that grief is one of the only problems in the world that will heal itself with support." (For a clear and concise discussion of unresolved grief read After the Tears by Jane Middelton-Moz and Lorie Dwinell.)

He stopped in the hallway to recover his composure, and explained that he had been suffering from this phobia far over a year. He was going to a psychiatrist, he said. I couldn't see that it had done him any good.

Sometimes a good cry is all you need, to release the pain that has built up inside.