Quotes About Therapy

A little whiff of a mental health issue never hurt anybody.

All governments could do more on mental health.

Everyone should have a mental health professional. It's a doctor!

I'm not a doctor, but I would assume that anything that you're doing that's harming you, and you can't stop doing it, is a sign of mental illness.

Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.

If you aren't mentally healthy you aren't healthy.

I was never really healthy mentally.

I started cooking out of middle school depression.

There are five steps to correctly performing a Walking Your Blues Away session. They are: Define the issue. Bring up the story. Walk with the issue. Notice how the issue changes. Anchor the new state.

The familial and emotional components may be most relevant for a child who is traumatized by physical abuse or other forms of stress at home.

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.

most psychology is puerile

part of me must have really wanted to believe--like a child hearing, in perfect safety, a tale of horror--that the unconscious would be like any other room, once the light was let in. That the dark shapes would resolve only into toy horses and Biedermeyer furniture. That therapy could tame it after all, bring it into society with no fear of its someday reverting. I wanted to believe, despite everything my life had been. Can you imagine?

wanted to believe—like a child hearing, in perfect safety, a tale of horror—that the unconscious would be like any other room, once the light was let in. That the dark shapes would resolve only into toy horses and Biedermeyer furniture. That therapy could tame it after all, bring it into society with no fear of its someday reverting. I wanted to believe, despite everything my life had been.

Krissa had since learned a great deal about the drug Lithium and was now aware of how controversial it was.

The concept of sin does not exist so that people who may need therapy more than theology can be convinced that they are evil and beyond hope. It is meant to encourage people to believe that they are made in the image of God and to act accordingly. Hope is the heart of it, and the ever-present possibility of transformation.

I have found therapy to be of limited usefulness, constrained in ways that religion is not, because it consistently falls short of mystery, by which I mean a profound simplicity that allows for paradox and poetry. In therapy I am likely to be searching for explanations, causes, and definitions, information that will help me change my behavior in healthful ways. But wisdom is the goal of spiritual seeking, and it is religion's true home.

The three cords to my rope were the religious (worship and prayer), the psychological (psychotherapy), and the physical (medical treatments, hospitalization, and exercise).

At the end of the session, if you feel joy and gratitude for having the chance to take part in your client's healing, that's a good match.

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

Before you get too giddy, remember therapy isn't going to come cheap." "What do you want to do? Sell one of the kids?" He grinned wryly. "No, I already looked into that. Ohio isn't one of the states where it's allowed." "So what are our options?" "We could tip some whale hunters to the location of your mom.

You know, one thought I've had quite a few times… is that the near death experience I had – I wonder if I created this… I think that certain people are able to create their own "shock treatments," and I almost have a feeling that this clinical death experience is your own form of shock therapy to make you aware.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.