Quotes About Therapy

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

Sometimes expressing yourself fully helps to let go faster. So cry, laugh, scream when you need to.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

No sé, si uno se ríe verdaderamente con ganas, parece como si de pronto se te reacomodaran las vísceras, como si de pronto hubiera razones para el ptimismo, como si todo esto tuviera un sentido. Uno tendría que automedicarse la risa como un tratamiento de profilaxis sicológica, pero el problema, como te imaginarás, es que no abundan los motivos de risa.

Terapia Para no sucumbir ante la tentación del precipicio el mejor tratamiento es el fornicio.

In terms of helping me heal my mind and heart, Dr. Artaud is good, but music is better. She's right when she says that I hide behind music. I sometimes let sound get physical, so that it rings in my ears, and vibrates in my chest and drowns out the unhappy voices in my head. Other times, like right now, music helps me respond to my better voices, the ones that give me a squeeze to the shoulders and a gentle push ahead." -Star

Developmental trauma occurs when "emotional pain cannot find a relational home in which it can be held."1 In retrospect, I can see that this was the case for

To do that, follow these steps: 1. Say, "Tell me what happened." Venting allows the person to begin moving from blindly striking out (the most primitive response) to feeling emotional (a higher response). The person's screaming or yelling will upset you, but it's far less dangerous than the threat of physical violence—so let it happen.

Cortisone is good shit.

Regression Sigmund Freud's theory of humor contended that humor, like sleep, is therapeutic. But even more important, he argued, wit can express—in a relatively appropriate way—urges and feelings that can't otherwise be let loose, such as the desire to act on regressive infantile sexual or aggressive behavior. More to the point, Freud believed that a lack of humor can be a sign of mental illness.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. The moment it arises, all your irritations and resentments slip away, and the sunny spirit takes their place.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

I know what you mean. I usually take it out on my older sister. You can lease her for a weekend or something if you need a psychological punching bag. I'll even give you a discount.

Laughter is the best medicine

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.