Mental health Quote by Robin Sacredfire

“Many people, not least those people who come to therapy, convince themselves that there are alternative options to choose where none exist.”

— Ernesto Spinelli

“Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

“I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)”

— Michael Greenberg

There are two types of people in the world: those who think everyone needs therapy, and those who have never been.

— Jenny Mollen

Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a…

— Rollo May

“Yet, I believe that my experience of depression has helped me to be a more humane and understanding therapist. Psychiatrists get depressed too, more…

— Linda Gask

“If people were not by nature insane and resistant to self-improvement or therapy,”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“There’s such a stigma attached to mental illness that people are often reluctant to talk about it, or admit that they, or someone they…

— Lori Wilde

I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political,…

— James Hillman

“The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.”

— Michael Adzema

Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head it off at the pass. Instead, they…

— David D. Burns

“I hated the idea of therapy with a passion. I hated the idea of being medicated even more”

— Bry Ann