{"quotes":[{"text":"Aaron's therapist calls him a wounded bird, but, I ask you, who wouldn't care for a wounded bird? What kind of person sees a bird with a broken wing, cat on the horizon, and walks on by?","author":"David James Poissant","tags":["help","therapist"],"id":173784,"author_id":"David+James+Poissant"},{"text":"Regret, Joss. Regret does awful things to a person.","author":"Samantha Young","tags":["doctor","regret","therapist"],"id":193411,"author_id":"Samantha+Young"},{"text":"Of course, I should have known the kids would pop out in the atmosphere of Roberta's office. That's what they do when Alice is under stress. They see a gap in the space-time continuum and slip through like beams of light through a prism changing form and direction. We had got into the habit in recent weeks of starting our sessions with that marble and stick game called Ker-Plunk, which Billy liked. There were times when I caught myself entering the office with a teddy that Samuel had taken from the toy cupboard outside. Roberta told me that on a couple of occasions I had shot her with the plastic gun and once, as Samuel, I had climbed down from the high-tech chairs, rolled into a ball in the corner and just cried. 'This is embarrassing,' I admitted. 'It doesn't have to be.''It doesn't have to be, but it is,' I said.The thing is. I never knew when the 'others' were going to come out. I only discovered that one had been out when I lost time or found myself in the midst of some wacky occupation — finger-painting like a five-year-old, cutting my arms, wandering from shops with unwanted, unpaid-for clutter.In her reserved way, Roberta described the kids as an elaborate defence mechanism. As a child, I had blocked out my memories in order not to dwell on anything painful or uncertain. Even as a teenager, I had allowed the bizarre and terrifying to seem normal because the alternative would have upset the fiction of my loving little nuclear family.I made a mental note to look up defence mechanisms, something we had touched on in psychology.","author":"Alice Jamieson","tags":["alter-personalities","alters","dissociation","dissociative","dissociative-identity-disorder","embarrassment","mental-health","mental-illness","multiple-personality-disorder","psychologist","psychology","self-stigma","split-personality","stigma","therapist","therapy"],"id":193974,"author_id":"Alice+Jamieson"},{"text":"Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . And she said, 'So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.","author":"Laura Munson","tags":["control","happiness","therapist","wisdom"],"id":230187,"author_id":"Laura+Munson"},{"text":"Be Your Best Without the Stress!Be the director and actor in your movie, called My Life.","author":"Katrina Radke","tags":["motivational-speaker","olympic-swimmer","therapist"],"id":268223,"author_id":"Katrina+Radke"},{"text":"I remember an insight that taught me much about life. One day I felt that I had everything that I really wanted in life. I had a creative and meaningful work as a therapist and course leader, I had a relationship with a beautiful woman, who I loved and who loved me, I had friend that I trusted and I had money to do what I wanted. But in spite of all this, I still had a feeling that there was something missing in my life. I was not satisfied. The thirst and longing in my heart was still searching for something more. It made me realize that the deepest pain in my heart was that I was still separated from the Whole and that no outer things or relationships could ease this pain.","author":"Swami Dhyan Giten","tags":["life","love","meditation","relationships","spirituality","therapist"],"id":290104,"author_id":"Swami+Dhyan+Giten"},{"text":"Someone's therapist knows all about you.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["gossip","opinion","quote","therapist","therapy","thoughts","you"],"id":408882,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"But I saw your aura looking healthy again, then looking sick after a hunt. And you keep getting migraines. You should take better care of yourself,” he added mildly. “Look for ways to not be so tense – long walks, meditation, these things would help.”Alex suddenly felt like Seb was his therapist; he had to resist the urge to shake him.","author":"L.A. Weatherly","tags":["angel-fire","annoying","funny","health","humor","humour","la-weatherly","sick","therapist"],"id":440340,"author_id":"L.A.+Weatherly"},{"text":"Anxiety, with its concomitant feelings of helplessness, isolation, and conflict, is an exceedingly painful experience. One tends to be angry and resentful toward those responsible for placing him in such a situation of pain. Clinical experience yields many examples like the following: A dependent person, finding himself in a situation of responsibility with which he feels he cannot cope, reacts with hostility both toward those who have placed him in the situation and toward those (usually parents) who caused him to be unable to cope with it. Or he feels hostility toward his therapist, whom he believes should bail him out.","author":"Rollo May","tags":["anxiety","clinical-practice","hostility-pain","therapist"],"id":446122,"author_id":"Rollo+May"},{"text":"The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.","author":"Michael Adzema","tags":["borderline-personality-disorder","psychology","therapist","therapy"],"id":471658,"author_id":"Michael+Adzema"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}