Quotes About Therapy

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

Years ago, I met once a week, 9 A.M. sharp, with a therapist whom I will call Dr. Mason. We would settle in well-worn chairs, Dr. Mason, a slender, balding middle-ager in blazer and striped tie, and me, an anxious academic in Levi's and tweeds.

The best thing about it is getting it all out there. Whatever you have on your chest, it just feels really good to talk to somebody who you have no ties to... so I think therapy is great. I think everyone should try it out.

Once severe depression has a hold, it is unshakeable until it has run its course or that course has been diverted by treatment.

I thought therapy was a sort of magic, that you just kept talking and the very act of talking unlocked some forgotten key.

It's all very well learning why I behave in the way that I do. That doesn't stop me behaving in those ways. I am just more conscious of them.' Consciousness is where therapy stops and we begin. Therapy can only give us knowledge. It is up to us to use it.

Therapy helped, but it is not magic. It does not change our thoughts or behaviours. It only teaches us what they might be. It does not work unless we take from it what we have learned and put it into action.

Knitting helps get both sides of the brain going, has a calming effect, and helps students in problem solving.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

My now wife Debbie is a therapist, and over and over she has witnessed that the best cure for distress is love.

Nature is my medicine.

The first step of any therapy is a little self-awareness. I want you to think about the ways your habits, your belief systems, your personality quirks have been developed to help you and protect you. Then ask yourself if they are truly working or if they're hurting you. For instance, when you feel a headache coming on, focus on something in front of you. Something real, like your hand, to keep you in the moment. It sounds small, but it helps, I promise.

And that's what we're truly longing for. On those weekends when we're suddenly gripped with the urge to watch all three extended editions of The Lord of the Rings, what we really want, deep down inside (besides therapy), is the assurance that there is a realm someplace where evil has been conquered once and for all.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.

Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

It's like avoidance behavior in therapy—wanting to share the gossip but not wanting to deal with the real, more painful issues. Of course we want to avoid the pain. But by doing so, we inevitably cause more of it.