What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.
Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny.
I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.
I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable
All rehab can do is tell you what’s wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
I loved the study of psychology. I didn't love seeing patient after patient. I was perpetually overstimulated, busy decoding everything I took in.
Working with special needs children is hard.
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.
I lost everything in the post-natal depression.
Drugging out symptoms does not solve the problem, it helps us ignore it - until the vehicle breaks down.
We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
