Therapists Quotes - Page 9

• We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.

  John Dufresne

  Jobs, Plot, Needs

  John Dufresne (2010). “Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months”, p.277, W. W. Norton & Company

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• She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeling trapped, dying to return to school, missing her roommates and her cute new boyfriend, the classes and the parties and the giggly talks before bed, understanding for the first time that that was her real life now, that this, despite everything she'd ever loved about it, was finished for good.

  Tom Perrotta

  Cute, Summer, Real

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• All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.

  Tobey Maguire

  Ambition, People, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.

  Bel Mooney

  Grief, Ill Health, Sorrow

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• We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

  Dan Marino

  Change, Children, Florida

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• I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.

  Teri Garr

  Fighting, Use, Television

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• Somebody gotta tell you this:
  Cancer kills way more Americans than any Arabic terrorist.
  We use more money to fight them than finding a cure,
  So a little kid sits there with his chemo-therapist.
  Hair falling out while his vital signs weaken...
  He'll be dead while his parent are in debt for his treatment.

  Crooked i

  Cancer, Rap, Fall

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• There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Rushing, Issues, People

  "I'm too sensitive. How can I toughen up?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. Jnuary 26, 2014.

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• If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.

  Gary Allan

  Talking, Long, Guy

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• Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Black, Anxious, Perceive

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• Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

  Amy Tan

  Depression, Use, Mental Illness

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• The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.

  Sue Grafton

  Girl, Writing, Creative Juices

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• If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational Life, Wish, Together

  "Man's Search For Meaning".

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• It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.

  Vicki Robin

  Sex, Finance, Easier

  Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford (2008). “Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Ind ependence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century”, p.45, Penguin

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• Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client. A tension - sometimes constructive, other times uncomfortable - has been prevalent in the field between one impulse toward structure and recognition and another toward freedom and flexibility to be responsive to individual circumstances

  Bob Benson

  Healing, Heart, Technique

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• Acupuncturists
  Chiropractors
  Massage Therapists
  Dentists
  and more!

  Shirley MacLaine

  Laughter, Massage, Dentist

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• My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

  Tammy Duckworth

  Jobs, Together, Would Be

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• Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights countervailing against our dysfunctional and incoherent and humanly destructive culture, its "therapists" have been virtually all shills or agents for this culture, trying to accommodate their patients to a fundamentally unhealthy and insane way of life.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Profound, Healthy

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• You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill that hole in my heart after I lost him. I did. "Life is futile," says my new therapist, Michaela, "and no one gets out of it alive. There is only love.

  Emma Forrest

  Heart, Found Someone, Alive

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.204, A&C Black

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• Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Couple, Acceptance, Expectations

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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• Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• Most of my life, I wanted to be a therapist, but then I just decided that I didn't want to be in charge of giving people advice. I want to know everything there is to know about psychology. But a therapist? No.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  People, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.

  Mary Pipher

  Long, Doe, Want

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• I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, 'You're just a big existential garbage pail. Go home and relax.'

  Spalding Gray

  Home, Relax, Garbage

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• In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.

  Greta Gerwig

  Millions

  Source: collider.com

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