Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

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 all these friends who just love therapy, and I always say the reason that I'm absolutely not in therapy is because then I wouldn't have anything to write.

I've never had therapy. Maybe the work is the therapy.

I believe that the healthy people go to therapy. It is the real lunatics who avoid it.

It's very important for me to do things like talk therapy. That's where you begin to see the walls that your illness has put up as a way to protect yourself... but of course, those walls also keep us from getting to the truth of things.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

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

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.

My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

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

My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly.

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.

I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff.

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to get it out. Life is supposed to be peaches and cream, but it doesn't turn out that way. I sometimes found things confusing and sometimes didn't understand how things can be so difficult.

I think honest lyrics help somebody say, 'I was struggling with this, but if Jon goes through that, too, and if Jon's telling me that his life isn't as good as it seems on his Instagram,' that helps somebody in their day to day.