Quotes About Therapy

The therapist could not budge the patient from her syllogism. She replayed it throughout the hour, 'stuck in a single organization of events.' Seeing it from the other side (from behind the wall, as an observer), I understood the obsessive quality of such an attachment, something comforting in holding on to a smug, all-seeing knowledge, even a sad or hurtful one; something that let the patient control the precise amount of pain she administered to herself.

The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

Com muita frequência, muita frequência mesmo, astrólogos e terapeutas podem cair no próprio jargão e falar dos seus clientes e pacientes de um modo padronizado. As pessoas se tornam 'casos', e o profissional cai naquilo que Martin Bubler chamava de atitude do 'Eu-isso' em vez de na atitude do 'Eu-tu'.

Oh, and I'm dependent on antianxiety meds, the only therapist I ever had died from a fall down a flight of stairs, and there's a viral video of me losing my mind at a public event, taken just before my own arrest. I'm not what anyone would call a reliable witness.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged. "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

Yeah, the strange thing is, Ms. Topper, I never liked writing before. But now I notice I feel a lot better after I do it.

In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.

I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

Good music acts a healer, it makes you positive.

I did speak to a counsellor after hitting rock bottom. It really did help, talking to somebody that didn't know me and just pouring my heart out to them in a few sessions.

Anger is so constructive.

I had a mental breakdown while doing my Ph.D. at Cambridge, soon after I cut off contact with my parents, and I started seeing the university counsellor, one of the best decisions I ever made. There's something very nourishing in setting aside an hour a week to talk.

A lot of us as adults haven't learned how to cope with our feelings, deal with our anger or work through the pain of our childhoods.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

In London, it's quite a rarefied activity to be on an analyst's couch.

It's hard to understand how you're feeling, or you don't even know. That's why sometimes people seek counseling.

Comedy is counseling.

I went to a counselor for years, and it wasn't the kind of counseling to help you - it was the 'Let's make you straight' type - but counsellors can help.

I honed my craft in the military, because it's the only thing that got me through it, to be honest. Working on music - being able to come home and work on music whenever I got off - was essential. If I didn't have that, I probably would've lost my mind.

Both creatively and organizationally, being medicated has helped me immensely.

There's nothing wrong with crying and letting it out, sometimes it is the best way.