Andy Dunn Quotes

I was in therapy as a child and definitely think that therapy is a very useful tool.

In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it.

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.

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.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

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 said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.

I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.

I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.

I probably suffered from a narcissistic disorder in some way.

CBT really helped me, and I would recommend it to anyone.

Specifically, my time in therapy has changed my life. It was such a relief to have a trained professional listen to my thoughts and help me positively restructure my thinking.

I've kept going to therapy to find out why my perspective is so skewered and why I'm filled with rage. It's so I can live in this world alongside these other people who seem to be what is desired and what the world wants.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.