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Quotes About Therapy

The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.
~ Karen Blixen
My court-appointed therapist would say I was trying to fill a hole." "Is that what you call your vagina?" Claire chuckled under her breath.
~ Karin Slaughter
She asked him, "Everything all right?" "It's good right now." He rubbed her back with his hand. "What did the shrink say?" Claire waited until the bartender had returned to his corner. "She said that I'm not being forthcoming about my emotions." "That's not like you at all." They smiled at each other. Another old argument that wasn't worth having anymore.
~ Karin Slaughter
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
~ Karl Marx
In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.
~ Maura Tierney
I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
~ Fay Weldon
Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.
~ Merrill Markoe
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.
~ Philip Rieff
My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.
~ Carrie Fisher
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
~ Jon Hamm
My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.
~ Wim Wenders
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
~ Marlon Brando
Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.
~ Marlene Dietrich
I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
~ Yancy Butler
The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.
~ Evan Esar
When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
~ Jay McInerney
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.
~ Travis Kalanick
If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
~ Sigmund Freud
Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother
~ Robin Williams
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father and she hung up the phone on me.
~ Anne Heche
Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.
~ Tom Bosley
For me exercise is more than just physical, it's therapeutic.
~ Michelle Obama
I vent through my music. That's the only outlet I have.
~ Kevin Gates