409 Quotes About Therapy

With DID, all parts are important aspects of the Self and exist for a reason, even if it is hard to understand or accept that concept early in treatment.

It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.

Pure thought is a pleasureable therapy.

A mind that has no conflict, is not alive.

Someone mentioned therapy to me once. I read a book instead. ~ Drew Stirling

Silence is a beautiful healing therapy - allowing your soul to be at peace with your thoughts.

I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.

It is a misconception that a client comes into therapy for happiness. More accurately, they come into therapy for a movement in a direction where life becomes more sustainable, enjoyable, less painful. This is not the same as happiness. It could, for instance, make a client very happy to ritualistically cut their wrists. The definition of happiness is so broad that it is almost meaningless. What has more objective truth to it is that the client comes to therapy for a change.

Remember, you can’t do all the work. Be content to help a patient realize what must be done and then trust his or her own desire for growth and change.