Counseling

No one has been able to find that either the amount of clinical
experience or the degree of professional training enhances outcome [in
psychotherapy].

-Author Unknown

The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free. Whether good or bad, at least they're out in the open. And once your secrets are out in the open, you don't have to hide behind them anymore. The problem with secrets is even when you think you're in control, you're not.

"Grey's Anatomy"

Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

“Grey’s Anatomy”

Because the brain is so complex, it may never fully understand itself no matter how hard we try.

-R. L. Solso

Thomas Szasz criticizes what he has termed the psychiatric imposter. He
discusses how the defining of psychiatry as a medical specialty is
misleading. He states that mental illness is a myth...a notion of a
person 'having a mental illness' is scientifically crippling.

The term [mental illness] itself is nonsensical, a semantic mistake.
The two words cannot go together...you can no more have mental
'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space. Body and
behavior become intertwined in this confusion until
they are no loner distinguishable. It is necessary to return to first
principles: a disease is something you have, behavior is something you
do.

-E. Fuller Torrey

The myth of mental illness...The mind, which extends beyond the
brain, is a function, or activity, of the brain. The mind reaches
beyond the physical realm and science and cannot, therefore, be
medically sick. Not being a physical organ, the mind is unable to have
a disease.

-Bobgan & Bobgan

[A crisis is not] a threat of catastrophe but a turning point, a
crucial period of increased vulnerability and heightened potential...
remember that conflict and
tension are sources of growth, strength, and committment.

-Erik Erikson