Quotes About Therapy

Well, my brother says 'Hello.' So, hooray for speech therapy.

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it.

They say laughter is the best medicine, and I agree. Plus, it's free, has no bad side effects and is available to EVERYONE.

Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects.

My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.

I can't answer you in a nutshell. We wouldn't fit unless we saw the same shrink.

Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Music heals all forms of misery

Does psychiatrists' ability to prescribe drugs give them an advantage over psychologists in places where psychologists cannot prescribe them? Not always. Drugs can be useful, but relying entirely on them can be a mistake. Whereas a typical visit to a clinical psychologist includes an extensive discussion of the issues troubling the client, many visits to a psychiatrist are briefer sessions that focus on checking the effectiveness of a drug and evaluating its side effects.

That vervey spontaneity became encounter theater therapy under the direction of the Marquis de Paar, who was peerless at grittily vapid chatter, misty bathos, and scenery-chewing controversy. Dick Cavett, who wrote for Paar, said that working for him was like having an alcoholic in the family.

Sean) "The therapist calls it cleithrophobia." "That sounds like a fear of something else," Krista snorted before she could stop herself. She bit her lip, as shame washed through her. Sean turned, his startled laughter sounding rusty as it erupted from his chest. "No, I'm definitely not scared of that.

Knitting, he thought, was a comfort to the soul.

I shrugged. "Some people need more than words." "Ha!" Gertie said. "Celia needs therapy." "Celia needs an exorcism," Ida Belle corrected. I looked at Carter.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Children from healthy families may work out childhood traumas in the playroom, while children of addicted families find themselves working out the painful traumas of the past in real life.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Everything is going wrong with my relationship. I know that it's all my fault. I try everything I know to fix it, but it doesn't work. I'm not even sure if I love him/her. Maybe I don't know what love is. I'm so confused." Sound familiar? It should. It is almost verbatim the story I hear when an Adult Child of an Alcoholic enters therapy because an intimate relationship is souring.

My main point is to show how so-called health values of therapy, hormonal treatment, and surgery have replaced ethical values of choice, freedom, and autonomy; how these same "health" values have diffused critical awareness about the social context in which the problem of transsexualism arises; how more and more moral problems have been reclassified as technical problems

The surrender was a turning point for me. That summer I cried nearly every day. It was part of letting up the emotional component that had been only partially present in much of my earlier recovery of memories, and the beginning of a deeper grieving for my losses. The crying itself did not resolve things for me, but it was part of what prepared me for what came later, when the opportunity presented itself to really cleanse the wounds with a qualified trauma therapist.

If you are plagued by trauma symptoms but have no memories, that itself becomes an issue to make peace with.