Psychology

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”

Feelings only lie. They tell you you're going to get from letting go of them, what you already have from holding on to them.

-Lester Levinson

It's that self-awareness begins with articulating the building blocks of what makes us happy and sad….And the key to living in harmony with others is finding time to listen to their hopes and fears—and learning not to knock them.

-Bruce Feiler

To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love."

-Leo Buscaglia

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but TO MOVE THROUGH IT to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

-James Hollis

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant...Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you...It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-Marianne Williamson

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

-Miles Franklin

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

-Emily Dickinson

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

-Eric Hoffer, “Passionate State of Mind,” 1955

[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

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

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

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

-R. L. Solso

Psychiatry, which had its beginnings in the care of the sick, has expanded its net to include everyone.

-Jonas Robitscher

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