Quotes About Therapy

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Debbie often talked about Gretchen as if she was his mistress. But to Archie it sometimes felt like the other way around. As if, by moving back in with his ex-wife, he was cheating on Gretchen. That was probably worthy of bringing up in therapy

When you treat a disease, first treat the mind.

You always feel better after you sing. It's like exercise, or eating your vegetables, or mediation. But with glitter and the occasional high note.

I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

You should see a therapist, everyone had told me after my mother died, and ultimately—in the depths of my darkest moments the year before the hike—I had. But I didn't keep the faith. I never did call the other therapist Vince had recommended. I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

Got a headache, huh?" Allan nodded. "Severe." "Why don't you use what doctors recommend most?" "Oh, God …" "Electroshock therapy! It really works!

Any reader unable to distinguish between the historical and fictional elements of the plot is urged to seek professional help as quickly as possible.

But the point is that one of television's greatest contributions is that it brought murder back into the home where it belongs. Seeing a murder on television can be good therapy. It can help work off one's antagonism. And, if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?

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

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.

When overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go out and garden, it's cheaper than a shrink.

To array a man's mind and will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Feelings must be dealt with before behavior can be improved.

If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

Sometimes, if we can't find another person to dump our anger on, we turn it on ourselves. The textbook definition of depression is anger turned inward instead of being discharged outward.

Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.

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For the purposes of my work with couples, I was keenly interested in the fact that changing your thoughts can change your brain. In a type of therapy called Behavior Change Therapy, or BCT, people are trained in how to use their rational minds to challenge the thoughts and beliefs that can cause depression.

Dr. Hendrix, why do couples have such a hard time staying together?" I thought for a moment and then responded. "I don't have the foggiest notion. That is a great question and I think I'll spend the rest of my career trying to find out.

Disease is a process. Healing is a process.