Terence McKenna Quotes

I see a therapist once, twice a week sometimes.

One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy.

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.

People don't usually come see me because things are going well.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer.

Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

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

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

Two things I do for maintenance: I get a manicure once a month, and I see my therapist about every six weeks. I am happy to report that, at this point, my nails crack more often than I do.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

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

I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

I go to therapy a lot. And I'm - I'm open about that, and I try to get the help so that I - so that I can cope and - and make my way in life and with my family.

Unfortunately, I think depression and anxiety are really hard to live with. And what people don't need is to feel bad about themselves because they decide to go on medication.

I want to be a psychologist.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.

I've been in therapy my whole life.

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.