Frank Bruno Quotes

For many people who face anxieties, depression, trauma or grief that dominate their lives, a vital source of support may be a counsellor or psychotherapist.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

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'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

I have phone sessions with my therapist, who is in New York, constantly, just to talk and get it out.

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

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

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

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

Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.

In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

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.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

My therapies went on forever.

I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.

In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.

Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.

I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

I don't know how people can live without a therapist.

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.