Cognitive Therapy Quotes

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

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.

Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.

I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.

I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

That's one thing with stroke victims, you've got to have a goal and you cannot accept anything but that goal.

We pay a lot of attention to our diet, but never to our mental health.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.

My mental health is something that I've been focusing on my whole entire football career. It's a normal thing.

Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.