Quotes About Therapy

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems.

Working out started as something mental. It was a way to release and let some things go.

The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the ocean.

For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't have my love, my joy.

La terapia es como una bola de nieve que se deja caer desde la cima de una montaña. A medida que rueda aumenta y aumenta de tamaño y se convierte en una avalancha que se amolda a la forma de la montaña.

Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well.. He met with meditation teachers, and closed his eyes and narrowed his thoughts until his world shrunk down to a single breath, in and out, in and out.

as if sadness were as treatable as common cold

Actually, therapy isn't just about feeling better - it's about getting better, which usually involves feeling worse for a while.

We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication

The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing monetary policy but also changing the behavior of consumers, employers and workers. The role of a sudden, jarring policy shift is that it quickly alters expectations, signaling to the public that the rules of the game have changed dramatically - prices will not keep rising, nor will wages.

Magic. I want magic. I want magic that works. THere is no doctor that can make the creature back into my daddy. No therapy that can make him into what he should have been. No going back to the beginning and rewriting. He is what he is and if I have to write what I know, I'm doomed , because I can never write about this, never.

A great paradox of contemporary therapy is that it cracks open so many crises of the mind that can't be healed with the mind.

That afternoon I saw that for an alternative therapy to succeed, the patient must have an internal concept of power—an ability to generate internal energy and emotional resources, such as a belief in his or her self-sufficiency.

and NPD stands for narcissistic personality disorder. It means that he's got exaggerated feelings of self-importance, a need for self-admiration, and a lack of empathy. People with that problem spend too much time worrying about success in everything, as well as their personal appearance. They tend to take advantage of the people around them. The problem usually starts early in childhood. He should've had some kind of therapy when he was a little boy.

What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

Ruby: How nice for you all. How is the wonderfully helpful Ursula? Rosie: Wonderfully helpful. Yesterday she told me I had problems discussing my feelings. Ruby: And? Rosie: And I told her that made me feel angry and that she could go fuck herself. Ruby: Well expressed. Rosie: Thank you. I don't see where there was a problem, I successfully explained how I felt and she clearly understood what I meant. No problems . . .

They should prescribe you for depression instead of pills

I've always had mental problems, so to speak.

We need mental health counselors in every school that needs one.

You have to be very careful about your mental health.

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

Mental health is something that I'm very interested in.

Exercise is great for your mental health!