409 Quotes About Therapy

To be honest, I write for myself. Therapy, I suppose people would call it. So when someone buys and reads one of my stories, and calls it a piece of shit, I can only assume they have not gained the same therapeutic effect from it, as I did, when I wrote it.

To treat my first multiple, as to raise my first child, I had to commit myself deeply to the experience in order to tolerate the uncertainty, fear, pain, and intensity.

Therapists are never “done” with growth, they are simply people who should be dedicated to learning as much about themselves and others as they possibly can. The best therapists are fully human and engage in the struggles of life. Our own failures help us to remain open to the struggles of others; our personal victories give us the optimism and courage to inspire those struggling with their lives.

The things most people need to learn in therapy are related to attachment, abandonment, love, and fear. We are trying to access basic emotional processes that are organized in primitive and early-developing parts of the brain. The language of these emotions is also very basic; it is the language of childhood. The more complex the language and ideas you bring into therapy, the more likely you are to stimulate your clients’ intellectualizing defenses.

Most therapists grew up struggling to be loved and accepted by others. Because of these early experiences, many of us find it difficult to believe others can be of help to us. We carry this struggle into our adult lives and, inevitably, into our relationships with our clients.

La terapia es como una bola de nieve que se deja caer desde la cima de una montaña. A medida que rueda aumenta y aumenta de tamaño y se convierte en una avalancha que se amolda a la forma de la montaña.

What she meant was that I let my emotions control me. I was letting myself be helpless to them, and when we think we are our emotions, instead of our emotions being something we experience, or can let go of, or survive… they’re in control.

Gathered in the folding chairs of the meeting room, they made a diverse group with the drug-addicted, a perfect democracy of collapse.

Addicted? Well there are two kind of therapies, one is spiritual and second is social. The difference between them are, if you seek spiritual therapy you don't relapse, but in social therapy they say "once your addict you are always addict and that set you up for relapse.