Quotes About Counseling

Chocolate may be cheaper than a psychiatrist, but the latter doesn't generally adhere to your ass for the rest of your natural life.

Part of me is looking for a way to destroy myself." She pauses. "And now you are judging me. I can see it. In your eyes." "This is a safe space, Paisley. You should feel free to say anything here.

every decision they make is based on two things: fear and love. Therapy strives to teach you how to tell the two apart.

far better that [a patient make progress but] forget what we talked about than the opposite possibility (a more popular choice for patients)—to remember precisely what was talked about but to remain unchanged.

such as depression and anxiety, personality

Fun fact: the countries with the most therapists per capita are, in descending order, Argentina, Austria, Australia, France, Canada, Switzerland, Iceland, and the United States.)

Freud argued that "the physician should be impenetrable to the patient, and like a mirror, reflect nothing but what is shown to him.

You are not the best person to talk to you about you right now.

Sitting-with-you-in-your-pain is one of the rare experiences that people get in the protected space of a therapy room,

Of course, therapists aren't persuaders. We can't convince an anorexic to eat. We can't convince an alcoholic not to drink. We can't convince people not to be self-destructive, because for now, the self-destruction serves them. What we can do is try to help them understand themselves better and show them how to ask themselves the right questions until something happens — either internally or externally — that leads them to do their own persuading.

Therapists will be supportive, but our support is for your growth, not for your low opinion of your partner.

The intimacy bridge? Girl, he sounds like a total loser. Dump him. Now. Before he brings up the intimacy bridge again.

She looked up at me with a polite smile, her dark hair long and appealing...I liked the smile. Maybe I didn't look like a beaten-up bum. Maybe on me it just looked ruggedly determined. I'm sorry, sir, she said, but the addiction counseling center is on twenty-six. Sigh.

You've got to talk to someone. It doesn't have to be me or here, but you've got to do it. There's no shame in feeling bad about killing someone, not for any reason.

It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

Remember that if you ever put your marital problems on the back burner they are sure to boil over.

Do the world a favor stop cutting your arms, and slit your throat.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from Dear Abby instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Dear suicidal teens, suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Sincerely, you have so much to look forward to in life.

Ask before offering advice or reassurance.

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

They just won't listen," and

It is also essential that good men and women not be educated and propagandized into believing that real evil is a myth and that all malevolent behavior is merely the result of a broken family's or a failed society's shortcomings, amenable to cure by counseling and by the application of new economic theory.