Depression Therapy Quotes

#1. I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

Lorde

#2. My work on Orange has taught me this: Human beings are not categorically bad because of their mistakes. They can learn from their errors and get back on track. No one should be forever written off because of one part of his or her history.

Diane Guerrero

#3. You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

Angela Davis

#4. It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enough. My therapist hears confession twice a month, my shrink delivers the host, and I can stand in the woods and see the world spark.

David Lovelace

#5. My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

Woody Allen

#6. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

Frank Herbert

#7. We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.

Carolyn Forche

#8. You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read.

Ken Stark

#9. I don't-" I shake my head. ( ... )
"What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.

Ned Vizzini

#10. Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.

Guido Van Rossum

#11. I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here."
"Is there something wrong with that?"
"Absolutely.

Ned Vizzini

#12. I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

Anna White

#13. My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

Jonathan Rottenberg

#14. Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you eliminate the symptoms and experience personal growth so you can minimize future upsets and cope with depression more effectively in the future.

David D. Burns

#15. The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you'll find.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#16. To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.

Stephen Chbosky

#17. Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.

Andrew Weil

#18. Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition to depression.

David D. Burns

#19. One of the things that therapists do if you are suicidal, like a trick, is ask you about the future. They want to know what your plans are. Do you want to be the president? Do you want to be a rock star? They want to know if you want to live later even if you want to die now.

Albert Borris

#20. Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

Susan Polis Schutz

#21. The first thing the therapist asked me was, 'Are you here because you're depressed?' I said, 'Not at all--I'm here because I'm Southern.'" Anne Herndon

Maryln Schwartz

#22. Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?

Julie Schumacher

#23. There's three type of men you got to avoid at any cost - the police, the army recruiters, the hustlers. They all want your life and that's all you got.

Sister Souljah

#24. Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.

David D. Burns

#25. Of course I began to see Nikki, which was strange because I was staring into Danny's eyes, and Danny is a six-foot-three black man who looks nothing like my ex-wife.

Matthew Quick

#26. Some of the things I'm talking about are very taboo and swept under the rug. As far as suicide and depression and alcoholism and stuff like that. Our community doesn't believe in therapy, they believe in dealing with it.

Stacy Barthe

#27. The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because you worry about your purse.

Mico Monsalve

#28. Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.

Northern Adams

#29. THE SECOND SPEAKER, ANITA SALTMARCHE, focused specifically on studies of light therapy used for traumatic brain injury, stroke, and depression.

Norman Doidge