Quotes About Counseling

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well.

I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'

My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.

If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.

Sean) "The therapist calls it cleithrophobia." "That sounds like a fear of something else," Krista snorted before she could stop herself. She bit her lip, as shame washed through her. Sean turned, his startled laughter sounding rusty as it erupted from his chest. "No, I'm definitely not scared of that.

one day Warren was admitted for his counseling and the Master threw a cup of cold green tea in his face and that was the lesson of the day.

But beware: some people who are unresponsive, withdrawn, insensitive, or cut off from their feelings may try to convince others that there is nothing wrong with them and everything wrong with their partner. Men tend to do that more than women.

Yet, by not seeking help. . . .

To establish a Scriptural counseling relationship, the speaker says we must know the person to the level that they feel like they are known and to the level that we are moved by the hardness of their experience.

Most find the aftermath of an officer-involved shooting more stressful than the shooting itself.

The SBA should be redirected to focus on its core missions of capital access, contracting, and counseling, while reducing duplication, overlap, and wasteful spending. Doing so will greatly improve its ability to better advocate for small businesses.

We could all use more coaching.

I'm not saying everyone who has a problem in their relationship should be a comedian, but I think if you're to work things out you've to get out of the bunker.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

If you're experiencing symptoms such as depression, anxiety, uncontrolled use of substances, or any other behaviors that affect your functioning, please see a professional.

Sometimes buried memories of abuse emerge spontaneously. A triggering event or catalyst starts the memories flowing. The survivor then experiences the memories as a barrage of images about the abuse and related details. Memories that are retrieved in this manner are relatively easy to understand and believe because the person remembering is so flooded with coherent, consistent information.

Can Mr. Wolfe help it if an attractive young fellow insists on coming to cry on his shoulder?

Giving such violent caretakers second chances, as social workers and judges frequently do, with the best of intentions—attributing their violence to poverty or racial prejudice and propping them up with counseling, household helpers and other resources—cannot reverse their violentization. To the contrary, such endorsement implicitly authorizes further violence and makes the state complicit with the violators.

I'm not a shrink. Never been to one. Shot a couple. Don't think that counts.