I'm not here to talk about feelings

quotes from my professors in therapy school and not quite aesthetic pictures of study spaces

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me, the morning after a big emotional episode, scribbling down notes: oh hell yeah we've gathered so much data about our own mental health

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I've been brainstorming gentler ways to ask people if they want to kill themselves.

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You did your job. You didn't do it well, but that's not your fault.

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How'd those ideas get inside of your dad?

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As a therapist, your clients pick you up and take you with them all of the time.

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Real men do XYZ. Men of God do XYZ. Then what the hell am I?

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Don't blame your mother. It's more complicated than that.

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We drink too much. We become too charming. We put ourselves into dangerous situations.

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Dang. Getting got by the man every time.

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If the conditions are right, people will continue to grow. Unfortunately the conditions aren't right.

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Sometimes you can buy yourself some time with a word or two, but by the fourth word you'd better start making some sense.

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Reading is fine. I much prefer buying books and putting them in my house.

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New Orleans is a very catholic place. Even the rabbis are part-catholic.

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They told me I wouldn't have to talk about religion and I wouldn't deal with schizophrenia-- then my first therapy client was a schizophrenic who sat down and asked if I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior.

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If you understand it, you can undermind it.

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Dude, it's just Cheerios. Buy it. Or don't.

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That's the thing about evolution, it doesn't always end well.