Quotes About Therapy

Specifically, my time in therapy has changed my life. It was such a relief to have a trained professional listen to my thoughts and help me positively restructure my thinking.

It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family?

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.

An actor with a genuine gift has the power to transport you from whatever your own pains may be into an entirely different world, freeing you from whatever you may be going through. At its best, it can be better than any medication.

Humor is the only way to overcome depression

Psychoanalysis is the transformation of hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

From observations arising from deep experiential therapy, the determined striving for external goals and the pursuit of success do very little in overcoming feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem, no matter the outcome of these endeavors. The feelings of inferiority cannot be resolved by mobilizing one's forces to overcompensate them, but by confronting them experientially and surrendering to them.

Maia Szalavitz, author of Unbroken Brain: Why Addiction is a Learning Disorder and What to Do About It; neuroscience

From the beginning of time man has undoubtedly more often been cured of his ailments by suggestion than by any other means, no matter how reluctant medical practitioners are to admit the fact.

Whenever remarkable cures have taken place, we may be pretty sure that suggestion has been at work.

today our physicians make use of radium: but no matter the method adopted, every one of them depends to a large extent for its efficacy upon the power it has of arousing the will-to-health in the patient.

T]alking can lead to deeper connections. So my therapist said.

The hybrid idea that a woman can be fully absorbed with her youngsters while simultaneously maintaining passionate sexual excitement with her husband was a 1950s invention that drove thousands of women to therapists, tranquilizers, or alcohol when they actually tried to live up to it.

For lack of a better phrase, knitting is knit together into who I am, and coming back to knitting meant coming back to myself, and myself was such a crazy place to be right then that I didn't want to go there.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.

The truth is, I can't read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.

When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.

So you were going to shoot him," Dick says. "That's some badass fucking therapy, you guys. Damn! Strict Freudian, huh?

The sun and salt air worked deeply on her muscles and eased the tension and pain. It

psychedelic therapy creates an interval of maximum plasticity in which, with proper guidance, new patterns of thought and behavior can be learned.