Quotes About Therapy

Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

Every time I feel mad or something, I run somewhere. It gets my frustrations away. I run and run and run.

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

My therapist said starving and dieting are like putting ice cream on a leg wound. I said that ice cream would feel cool and numbing. She said yes and then it would melt.

treatment—presumably

Again it was words that healed. Words and memory.

best cure for grief was shopping, especially for things to wear.

Because that's what people need after traumas, apparently - lots of long conversations about the effects of trauma.

Every time you cry, you should cry your heart out. That way you'll get the best release.

I know how to get you over that. I've done it before. Just call me Dr. Pat.

Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.

That which doesn't kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy. (Caleb) Yeah, and usually a lot of Tylenol. (Nick)

That which doesn't kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy.

Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

I knew that I was naturally good at [therapy] because I was kind of that person in my circle of people in my life.

Photography has saved my life, over and over again.

It seems clear to me at this time that we are not dealing with "false" or confabulated memories.