Quotes About Therapy

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

There are some fantastic, brilliant alternative doctors out there.

Shopping is my all-time favorite thing to do!

Music is really a medicine, it can make you feel good.

Sometimes 15 minutes of putting in a deep conditioner or doing my makeup are all I need to feel good.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

I've done acupuncture, and I believe in it. That's the first place I go if I'm having any particular pain anywhere.

Everybody who cares about me wants me to do therapy, but I just can't do therapy.

I told a couple friends about it... I was like, 'Hey, might be trans, might want to look at doing hormone therapy, just letting you know'... and they were like, 'Yeah cool. Who cares? Like, whatever, awesome.'

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Despite probably needing one, I don't have a therapist. Why spend the money on my mental health when I can do far more productive things such as purchase iPhone apps and pay off parking tickets?

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

If I weren't a tennis player, I'd probably be a psychologist.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had.

A doctor prescribed testosterone for depression and it truly helped me.

Good analysts and therapists can help us to recognize parts of ourselves we have repressed and denied. The shamanic concept of soul loss reaches further. It recognizes that soul healing is also about retrieving pieces of soul that have literally gone missing and need to be located and persuaded to return and take up residence in the body where they belong.

Soft-tissue manipulation is no doubt one of the oldest forms of therapy,