Quotes About Therapy

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

It was easy to see that I was recreating my painful history every time I talked about it.

Trauma can warp the brain.

Laughter (humor) is the best medicine"!

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

The department shrink spent weeks trying to convince me I was deeply traumatized, but eventually he had to give up, admit I was fine (sort of regretfully; he doesn't get a lot of stabbed cops to play with, I think he was hoping I would have some kind of fancy complex) and let me go back to work.

Various therapists and psychiatrists have diagnosed various things along the way, but what it comes down to is that Dina is no good at life. It takes a knack that she's never quite got hold of.

The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

if you're interested in learning more about his schema model, read Reinventing Your Life).

the more turbulent the emotions expressed on paper, the greater the improvement in their immune function.

often suggest that my clients use an inner dialogue with their schemas, talking back to the thoughts rather than remaining passive.

When therapy was successful, two kinds of changes showed up in person after person: the schemas' grip on their lives loosened, and the script changed for the better its typical outcome.

schema therapy, which focuses on repairing maladaptive emotional habits.

Our issues are in our tissues.

Ono što oni nisu shvatili jeste da se bolesti duše ne lije?e na isti na?in kao bolesti tijela.

Skin symptoms like other symptoms are often well-intentioned but doomed attempts to make our lives better.... They are doomed because we're trying to use our skin to do things the skin is not designed for. I tell my patients, "try to feel your emotions in your heart, not in your skin."