Quotes About Therapy

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

I also discovered that other forms of side-to-side movement besides the eyes could be effective. Therapists could also use taps alternating from hand to hand or tones played from one ear to the other.

At this point, there is enough research for me to believe that both are true. So, if I had to do it over again, I'd simply call it "Reprocessing Therapy." But now Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing—more commonly called EMDR—is known worldwide, so it's too late for a name change.

However, today more than 20 scientifically controlled studies of EMDR have proven its effectiveness in the treatment of traumatic and other disturbing life experiences.

Nature affords a universal means of healing and preserving men.

Fitness is the only therapy you need.

In fact, research shows that the process of labeling emotional experience is related to greater emotion regulation and psychosocial well-being.

What's important to note about Pennebaker's research is the fact that he advocates limited writing, or short spurts. He's found that writing about emotional upheavals for just fifteen to twenty minutes a day on four consecutive days can decrease anxiety, rumination, and depressive symptoms and boost our immune systems.

The Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia is another tremendous resource.

My therapist, Diana, retired at the end of our work together (I know, don't say it).

breath for a count of four—one, two, three, four. The breathing method many therapists and mindfulness practitioners

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

To the SICK the doctors wisely recommed a change of air and scenery

by coaching individual family members to change themselves in the context of their nuclear and parental family systems (McGoldrick

What saddens me is seeing patients who have been going to therapy for years and years with no change, but they keep going to the same therapist. To me, that's not right.

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

Years and years of therapy taught me to speak up because speaking up is what gets things done and gets your story and your voice heard.

I am not a person who yells at all, but I realized that I have always felt so good after doing the Tarzan yell, after doing Charo, or screaming as Eunice.

I take Wellbutrin because I'm afraid to go into stores. I'm afraid people are going to yell at me.

Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

Instead of yelling and screaming or losing myself all the time, I release everything in my music, and that's kind of how I expel my demons, as you would say.