Alex Rodriguez Quotes

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

I've had a lot of therapy in my life.

I don't feel bad about telling somebody I see a psychologist. I don't feel that you should feel bad about improving yourself.

When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.

I'm naturally a very happy person, but I've had times with depression and have got through it with therapy.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.

It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family?

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.

For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.