Quotes About Therapy

I have dermatologists, Atlas bone adjusters, a doctor that does a Polish technique to make your blood circulate. It heals everything.

Depression is something I've lived with since I was a teenager.

When I was a teenager, I battled some severe depression.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.'

Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people's traumatised memories;

I was in therapy for a bit. Now I do CBT exercises." "Do you, though?" Strike asked mildly. "Because I bought vegetarian bacon a week ago, but it's not making me any healthier, just sitting there in the fridge.

qualified occupational therapist,

Reconciliation processes try to create new spaces that are safe for revisiting the experience of trauma.

Yes. You see, the first time I came in here to see you, I simply watched how you sat with me; then I began sitting with myself in the same way." This is the healing space we hope to offer others in therapy, but naturally we don't always succeed.

Laughing is medicine for the soul.

lock two ninety-minute massages onto your weekly schedule.

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

for things like migraine, high or low blood pressure, stomach cramps. I don't remember exactly, but Bach was the one prescribed most often, especially certain fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier. Wait, I'll be back in a minute.

The crisis of engulfment can come from a wound

THIS MEANS THE LAST REASON TO HAVE PSYCHIATRY AROUND IS GONE

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

He was different from every other man she knew. He was capable of loving; he was at once a laughing daredevil and a hard-hitting businessman. But most of all, he needed her. Other patients had needed her, but only as a therapist. Blake needed her, the woman she was, because only her personal strengths had enabled her to help him with her trained skills and knowledge. She couldn't remember anyone ever needing her before.

Think of it as therapy, he encouraged. A sort of repayment for your own therapeutic knowledge. You gave me a reason to live, and I'll show you how to live.

Stop psychoanalyzing me! Be less therapist, more man -- Man? Last time I tried being a man, you looked at me as if I was going to hit you. You don't need a man, Rainie. You either need a blow-up doll or a damn saint!

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.