Rosie Perez Quotes

I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.

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

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

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.

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

I've struggled a lot with therapy because it's got a stigma to it, and also, it's really gotta work for you, I've found.

The idea of going to the psychologist, for anyone who has any problem, is associated with something negative. I think everyone sees it that way when it's really a very important thing.

A lot of times, especially in the black community, where therapy is talked about, it's like, 'Just go to church.'

I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is that people tend to think that's enough.

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both.

Bipolar disorder is so swept under the rug as a nation and, I think especially, by black people. It's not our culture to go get therapy. 'Give them medicine for what?' We put people in court, put them in court again, versus really paying attention to what it is they are going through.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

I've been to therapists my whole life.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

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

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

I definitely think that prescription drugs, like antidepressants, are prescribed so cavalierly, anyone can get anything, but I need it. I do think that it needs to work hand and hand with therapy.

I've been in therapy my whole life.

Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.