Quotes About Therapy

Walking is good for solving problems — it's like the feet are little psychiatrists.

To some, the cigarette is a portable therapist.

Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger.

When you're a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.

Psychoanalysis, it seems, does wonders for a man's prose style: it renders it labyrinthine without subtlety.) There is no place, then, for human agency, except the kind that leads you to talk about yourself in the presence of another for twenty years. Shallowness can go no deeper.

I've found Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (Collins) and The Feeling Good Handbook (Plume) to be extremely helpful and highly regarded books in the area of managing stress in productive ways. Many

I needed a check-up from the neck up.

I'm afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.

Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

were finally able to fall back asleep. Early on, all of them had seen a counselor; the kids had drawn

Isn't crying a good thing? Why would we want to give pills to people so they don't weep? When you read a great line in a poem, what's the first thing you do? You can't help it. Crying is a good thing.

For some years I relied on suicidal thoughts to help me go to sleep.

I am a rationalist, and I don't believe in genies, or sudden personality changes. I wanted David's anger to vanish only after years and years in therapy.

Noi che viviamo in questo quartiere e con questo reddito crediamo molto al potere delle parole: leggiamo, parliamo, scriviamo, abbiamo terapisti e consulenti e persino sacerdoti che sono felici di starci a sentire e dirci che cosa fare.

When I first met him, he had a recurrent nightmare that Henry Kissinger was chasing him with a knife, and I said it was really his father, and he said it was really Henry Kissinger, and I said it was his father and he said it was Henry Kissinger, and this went on for months until he started going to the Central American shrinkette, who said Henry Kissinger was really his younger sister.

I fly to New York to see my shrink. I walk into her office and burst into tears. I tell her what my husband has done to me. I tell her my heart is broken. I tell her I'm a total mess and I will never be the same. I can't stop crying. She looks at me and says, "You have to understand something: You were going to leave him eventually.

I have never told anyone the exact details of my particular sex fantasy: it is my only secret and I am not going to divulge it here. I once told almost all of it to my former therapist; he died last year, and when I saw his obituary I felt a great sense of relief: the only person in the world who almost knew how crazy I am was gone and I was safe.

I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It's cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting

As a rule of thumb, I'd say one cliché per [Romance]--and then be damn sure you can make it work. But if you're going to try to write the virginal amnesiac twin disguised as a boy mistaken for the mother (or father depending how well the disguise works) of a secret baby, honey, you better have some serious skills. Or seek therapy.

Tyler, I can recommend a good therapist. There's absolutely no shame in seeking help for mental instability. I'll keep it in mind. God knows I haven't been clear in the head since I got tangled up with you. We can make an appointment together, after you move in. I'm not moving in with you. Yes, you are.