Questlove Quotes

I will continue going to the psychologist. It helps me to manage the pressure and emotions.

I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.

I have a shrink in New York and a shrink in Arizona, just in case. You never know when you will have a breakdown.

In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

I think that's the function of a lot of psychiatrists and therapists, is keeping people afloat just long enough for them to get older.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

Restricting behavior in a crises is hard to do.

If I start panicking a little bit, I just talk through it with somebody.

Tapping therapy is absolutely brilliant. Stephen Gately from Boyzone, God rest his soul, told me about it. It's just a little tap that focuses the mind away from that wave of panic and adrenalin that shoots into your body.

To switch off, I will take a sleeping pill if I have to. I also found myself realigning things.

You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

Whenever I have a bad day, I tell everybody around me, 'Just so guys know I am having a bad day and I am nervous about these things,' and that makes all the difference.

My mom's coping mechanism was to be strong and resilient. She is very compassionate and nonjudgmental.

I am a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.