Quotes About Therapy

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

The scientific evidence is clear that exercise significantly reduces depression and anxiety.

The goal was to offer the patient two things at the same time. The first was an opportunity to describe the traumatic experience—to craft a story about it, so the patient could make sense of it. As this experiment began, one of the things they discovered almost immediately is that many of the patients had literally never before acknowledged what happened to them to another human being.

One study of depressed people in Norway found that a program like this moved people on average 4.5 points on the depression scale—more than double the effect of chemical antidepressants.

Joel Nigg] believes you can only ethically give out drugs if you are also at the same time trying to solve the deeper problem.

It fascinated me that you could change behavior so dramatically by changing brain chemistry….

Some scientists in the field believe that dreaming somehow helps you to adapt emotionally to waking events.

Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Jiu-Jitsu is my therapy, my passion, my life.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.

The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

As if talking about something could make it better. As if wounds needed attention.

This is therapy, Ruby." Doctor Z sounded exasperated. "It might be helpful for you to try to articulate something about something.

I know, when a man's best friend is his dog that man needs help - professional help. I understand that and I acknowledge it and I say to hell with it.

All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day.

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

Stitch your stress away.