Quotes About Therapy

The last five years I've really worked on my mental health and seeing a therapist - which, it's so funny cause I thought that in going into therapy, I was going to talk all about swimming, and if anything, I never talk about swimming.

Many people tried to find the therapy for cancer, but all failed. And myself, I never expected my research, working on the immune system, would lead to the cancer therapy.

I had severe PTSD and anxiety, but it was the '80s, and I didn't have a name for it. I don't think my mother even thought, like, 'Maybe I should take her to therapy.' I thought I could handle it because I'm tough.

What I go through in my life, I tend to put it in my music. I always say the things that hurt me the most and that matter to me the most. I can't hold it in, man. It's like therapy.

When I finally addressed my stuttering - I was almost through with medical school by the time that I finally sought therapy for speech - one of the exercises was making sure that we say what we want to say and not substitute words.

I've always felt like writing and creating music is similar to therapy, because you're spending days, weeks, months reflecting on yourself and your life and trying to process everything and express those feelings out loud. It can be incredibly cathartic and healing.

Country music is therapy - it's therapy for the rural world.

I always felt like I had a difficult time in my 20s but I had good people looking out for me. I went to therapy; I found a great therapist. All that stuff helped so immensely.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Thieves don't usually make good therapists.

Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so I was very gangly and limby, and would sweep things off the table without realising how big my wingspan was - just out of control. A lot of women write to me and say, 'I'm six foot and exactly the same happens' - that's been lovely therapy.

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

I feel like working out is something where I can be alone with my own thoughts and release all that tension.

When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

I've 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you're not naive after the first few thousand. I've helped people deal with things that most people can't imagine.

If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

Well, you know, whatever works works. If, you know, if laying your hands on someone and giving them healing makes them feel better, what does it hurt? It's a good thing.

I wasn't schizophrenic. I wasn't bi-polar. I wasn't dealing with long-term mental illness. I was a sensitive artistic-type who'd been through severe trauma and needed immediate help.

The vast majority of kids I've worked with over the years had already endured more than their fair share of consequences. If all those consequences were going to work, they would have worked a long time ago.

Shopping eased the pain. -Hailey, Retail Therapy

A obra de arte ou é para exprimir ou para curar o sofrimento.

Shock therapy has arguably created a large block of politicized people ready to vote for someone, perhaps a militarist, a quasifascist, or an old-style Communist, to undo the transitional order that has harmed them.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.