Therapist Quotes

• I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Lose
  • Therapist
  • Fast Food

• When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Parents
  • Younger
  • Therapist

• Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Needs
  • Therapist

• Images and physical sensations may deluge patients at this point, and the therapist must be familiar with ways to stem torrents of sensation and emotion to prevent them from becoming retraumatized by accessing the past.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Emotion
  • Images
  • Patients

• If you’re still in it, it’s hard to talk about it. I wasn’t able to attach in the way that you need to attach and open up in the way that you need to open up in order to have any type of relationship with a therapist.” This was a stunning revelation: So many patients are in and out of treatment, unable to meaningfully connect because they are still “in it.” Of course, when people don’t know who they are, they can’t possibly see the reality of the people around them.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Relationship
  • Treatment
  • Connect

• Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.

  

  Gary A. Kowalski
  • Spiritual
  • Friendship
  • Therapist

• Before I began seeing a therapist, I lost a few iPhones due to chucking them across a room.

  

  Noelle Scaggs
  • Lost
  • Therapist
  • IPhones

• I'm realizing that my childhood is not my daughter's, that I can't heal myself by any actions I take with her - and that it's definitely time for me to go back to my own childhood... with my therapist.

  

  Eva Amurri
  • Childhood
  • Actions
  • Therapist

• Left my CBT therapist to work with a psychodynamic psychiatrist and I joined a Pilates class.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Therapist
  • Pilates

• A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Illness
  • Comedian
  • Psychologist

• When you're sick, who does the shopping or takes you to the doctor? Who do you talk to when you are upset?" In other words, who provides you with emotional and practical support? Some patients gave us surprising answers: "my dog" or "my therapist" – or "nobody".

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Support
  • Sick
  • Doctor

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