Samira Wiley Quotes

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

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

In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

I get tired too, just like everybody else. Sometimes I tell people that, but all I get is people saying that being vulnerable and weak is just not like me. I rarely get the response of emotional support I want. But sometimes I need it.

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

I'm too neurotic to be a therapist.

For me, it's quite important, my inner being, my - in my work, if I can give a person a little encouragement, a little warm hand in a moment that they really need me.

My mom's coping mechanism was to be strong and resilient. She is very compassionate and nonjudgmental.

I just make sure that people around me are fine. There is not a lot I can do anymore. Just support the people. Be with them. But at the end, I've got to go play. And after, we can talk again. But I have to kind of block it for two hours.

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

I am a very emotional person.

I know firsthand how critical support systems are.

I'm a pretty emotional person.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

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.