Quotes About Therapy

Cooking can cure almost anything.

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.

I don't think there is a true cure for PTSD.

Laughter cures everything.

I do believe that laughter is the best medicine - it cures everything.

I didn't say a pulsed electro-magnetic field cures cancer. I don't believe it does. All I said is that it will help tackle cancer.

I believe pulsed electromagnetism has a role to play in tackling cancer and I will always believe that.

Time to Talk is all about tackling taboos and getting the nation talking about mental health.

When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.

Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it's funny, it doesn't hurt anymore.

I am on medication - I've talked about that before - just to help my anxiety, so I'm not depressed all the time.

My job gives me the permission to ask really great questions, like, 'Are you sure you're not pissed at him?' or, 'Is the eating really about food, or does it have something to do with your mother?' or, 'How is your sex life? I mean, I know we're here talking about your job, but I can tell this has to do with your sex life.'

You're goddamn paranoid. You should see someone about that." "I tried, but she kept writing things down. It made me more paranoid.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

one of the main benefits of spending time in nature is stress reduction.

thoughtful exposure of youngsters to nature can even be a powerful form of therapy for attention-deficit disorders and other maladies.

Several of these studies suggest that thoughtful exposure of youngsters to nature can even be a powerful form of therapy for attention-deficit disorders and other maladies. As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.

nature can help people recover from "normal psychological wear and tear"—

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author.

There is clearly a biochemical component to depression, and medication can be helpful for many people, but medication alone is not sufficient treatment for most.

Psychotherapy and medication both produce similar changes in brain functioning.18 There is a biochemical process in depression, but the individual has been made susceptible to depression through life experiences.

If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, certain areas of your brain light up on scans; with good treatment, those areas gradually dim and others light up more.

Grief isn't a luxury; it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, it only gets worse.

The relationship between a patient and a counselor is a peculiar thing. I find myself wanting to act more sane to win her approval.