Therapy Session Quotes

“The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us.”
― Sylvia Day, Reflected in You

“You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Freak

“So on a scale of one to Adele, how bad was this breakup?”
― Jennifer Lane, Aced

“Happiness is a state of mental,physical and spiritual well-being. Think pleasantly,engaged sport and read daily to enhance your well-being.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“You're convinced that anybody who meets you for the first time will consider you a shit, so you take preventive action. Relax, boychick. When they get to know you better they will realize that they were right. You are a shit.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

“Nita: I think I overdid the vulnerability stuff in this last letter. and that’s why I’m having an anxiety attack.

Howard: With the vulnerability comes the possibility that you’ll be betrayed. Now that you’ve laid yourself wide open, I am the agent of this betrayal? It’s not my style.

Nita: I’ve thought it wasn't other people’s style, too.”
― Sarah E. Olson, Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

“I hear a siren and, if we weren’t already in a hospital, I would have assumed they were coming for nearly everyone in this room.”
― Michael F. Stewart, Counting Wolves

“At sixty one, I was at the top of my professional career, a wife, mother, and grandmother with many wonderful friends--and absolutely terrified....I was unaware of living as multiple identifies, but did spend my life running away from a 'me' I could neither understand nor tolerate....The first step to becoming one whole person happened to me the day in therapy when I became aware of the three adults who had been living in separate compartments in my brain. I saw them and they saw each other....A perfect three-point landing.”
― Janyne McConnaughey, Brave : A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma

“BDSM, in its nature, is a very intimate and intelligent therapy, if done properly.”
― Silver Vixxxen, Miss. A and Johnny's European Escapade LONDON: Femme Fatale Rescue Diaries

“I didn’t want to be abandoned, alone, isolated and feeling all of this on my own. He was all I had. All I even could get from this world. But I was a horrible human being, and that was just the start of it all.”
― W.M Angel, Atlas Loved

“Canadian researcher Donald Dutton . . has written that marital work with a man who has a history of relationship violence may be a “conflict-generator” and that individual work . . should come first for both husband and wife.
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Marital therapy does not provide the battered woman the kind of safety she needs for rebuilding her strength and finding her identity. The consequences may be severe if she is truthful in a couple’s session. She may be too afraid. Moreover, many upscale batterers can be charming and persuasive and may convey a far different image of themselves to the therapist than the one that reflects the woman’s reality at home.”
― Susan Weitzman, Not To People Like Us: Hidden Abuse In Upscale Marriages

“I'm not a particularly good daughter, but I sat through a month of therapy for my parents' sake. I'd like to think they got more out of it than I did. Couldn't have been too hard. Any system that requires the patient's family to pay someone else to care about her is fundamentally flawed.”
― Lianne Oelke, Nice Try, Jane Sinner

“Anger was good, she'd said, while I was putting my coat on. If I was finally getting in touch with my anger, then I was starting to do some important work, unpicking & addressing things that I'd buried too deep. I hadn't thought about it before, but I suppose I'd never really been angry before now. Irritated, bored, sad, yes, but not actually angry. I supposed she had a point; perhaps things had happened that I ought to feel angry about.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“The best thing you can do for yourself is spend time getting to know who you are, what you like, and what you dislike”
― C Miller

“On another occasion, as I was about to explain something during a session with a client on antidepressants, I forgot she was a busy clinical psychiatrist and casually asked, “Have you heard of the limbic system?” With the first smile I’d ever seen from her, she replied, “Yes, I believe I have, somewhere or other.” I then said, “Oh shit!” in a very professional manner, and we both started laughing. It turned into a very comfortable moment in our deepening, warm, and trusting partnership.”
― David McPhee PhD

“Howard: Sometimes a betrayal can be so subtle that it clouds the whole thing.

Nita: It would have to be a real betrayal. Not like canceling an appointment. It would be like you’d end the relationship in the middle.

Howard: Why would I call it off?

Nita: I don’t know!”
― Sarah E. Olson

“I notice his socks are unmatched -- one black, the other a dark navy -- and suddenly I am provoked by his gall. Who is he to tell me I'm angry, I think to myself, when he can't even match his own socks?”
― Kathy Hatfield, The Girl on the Moon: A Novel About Endless Time

“It seems like someone new is here?"
I nodded.
"Is it okay to talk to you?"
I nodded again.
"Are you the one who doesn't like the grocery store?
"Yes," came the same soft voice.
"What is it about the grocery store?"
"It's not the store; it's the people. We get scared that some big person is going to hurt us. So we don't let her go places where there are lots of people."

I felt dizziness in my head and then a different voice—a little stronger but still young—came out: "And then there's all that noise. We won't let her go in places with too much noise."
"Is there someone new here?"
"Yes."
Is it okay if we talk together?"
"Yes."
"What's the problem with the noise?"
"It was always noisy. A lot of yelling and crying. There was too much going on."
"Is that the same kind of problem, the other part has?"
"Yes. It's too hard for her to watch everyone to figure out who is going to hurt us next."
"Don't you think Olga can take care of you?"
"We want to think that, but we aren't sure."
"Why is that?"
"Because she couldn't take care of us before."
"Do you all know what year it is?"
"1968?"
"Oh, I see. No, it's 1996, and Olga is big now. You all live inside her, and she has learned about you. She is also learning how to stop people from hurting you. She is strong and powerful. Were you there when she stopped the woman in the office from yelling at you?"
It's 1996? She's big?" I paused to let the information sink in to all the parts that were listening. "She stopped people from yelling at us?"
"Yes." Dr. Summer watched and waited. Home had been so chaotic. I had to watch Popi, Mike, Alex, and my mom very carefully. But I don't live there anymore. I'm grown up now.”
― Olga Trujillo, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder

“The next Thursday she and Mike went to therapy even though there was nothing left to therapize. They went so they could talk calmly, so they could get through a conversation without anyone calling anyone else a Bunny fucker, so that Rhonda could help them work out logistics.
Rhonda tried to appear neutral, but it was clear she was on Jane's side. Jane had won therapy. It was a consolation prize. Rhonda helped them figure out what the terms of their separation would be and asked if they wanted to file for legal separation.
"Yes," Jane said.
"I think we should talk about that," Mike said.
"Yeah?" Jane said. "I think the ship has sailed on talking. Or the penis has sailed if you know what I mean.”
― Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

“There wasn’t enough room in her stomach for both food and fear.”
― Nicole T. Smith, We Have Shadows Too

“Rella was exhausted. She just wanted a life where she wouldn’t have to talk about it.”
― Nicole T. Smith, We Have Shadows Too

“I've always said there are forest people and desert people. Forest people are nurturing and fertile, but they have a tendency to hide behind their branches. I'm a desert person. Hard and acerbic and difficult to endure, but honest. You always know what you're getting in the desert because there isn't anywhere to hide. In that dry air, you can see a storm coming from ten miles away.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“There's something incredibly healing about pouring your soul onto paper. Writing helps me untangle my mind and find clarity amidst anxiety and PTSD. It's my go to therapy.”
― Niedria D. Kenny

“It’s frustrating when your issues become too much for the therapist.”
― Niedria Kenny

“How do I find myself in nothingness?”
― Rita Kay, Tell Me It’s Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths

“Therapy offers a mirror to the "student" when he's ready.”
― Kierra C.T. Banks