Quotes About Therapy

If you need to scream, find a safe place, then scream.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.

Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

But one of the things you learn in therapy is that there comes a point when you have to take care of yourself.

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

I had a therapist once who told me the death of a loved one is the most common cause of a teenager going over the edge. Divorce is next.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it.

Clinical psychologists sometimes say that two kinds of people seek therapy: those who need tightening, and those who need loosening. But for every patient seeking help in becoming more organized, self-controlled, and responsible about her future, there is a waiting room full of people hoping to loosen up, lighten up, and worry less about the stupid things

Trigger warnings are counter-therapeutic because they encourage avoidance of reminders of trauma, and avoidance maintains PTSD.

Cognitive behavioral therapists treat trauma patients by exposing them to the things they find upsetting (at first in small ways, such as imagining them or looking at pictures), activating their fear, and helping them habituate (grow accustomed) to the stimuli.

Clinical psychologists sometimes say that two kinds of people seek therapy: those who need tightening, and those who need loosening.

Right from the start, she felt at home with them. They sensed it, too, and soon, following her pattern, she was treating twice, then three times as many patients as anyone else at the hospital. More important, she was getting results, with patients and families increasingly requesting her as their therapist. The V.A. staff took notice, happy to have someone carry the elephant's load.

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

The symptoms of madness can often be altered with medication, but there's no therapy for evil.

You crazy or something?" growled Zucco. "It's come up in therapy.

The little office, scarcely large enough to contain Dr. Irene's desk at one end and the couch at the other, held a world of memories for Lily. Here, fifty minutes at a time, two or three times a week, she'd spilled out her hopes and fears, her childhood nightmares and adolescent insecurities – in a sense, she'd grown up in this room.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

Hay una novedad en la psiquiatría americana: los sujetos adictos al psicoterapeuta son personas que sufren crisis de identidad, no se encuentran a sí mismas, están perdidas o no saben cómo son ni lo que quieren en la vida.

Nidoterapia (terapia del nido, cuyo nombre deriva del latín nidus, nido), que es una nueva estrategia terapéutica que se debe utilizar en trastornos de personalidad persistentes y que significa el intento de modificar el entorno, el medio sociofamiliar de un sujeto para intentar reducir al mínimo influencias negativas sobre él.

Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.