Therapy Laugh Enthusiast Gifts

I think we need to move to your usual four o'clock appointments to earlier in the day, Al. I find that every time I see you at four, I feel the need for cocktail hour at five.

"And the letterbox version, how does that make you feel."

'The Great Depression? Didn't they have Prozac then?'

Beer $.50. I've had lot of psychological therapy, but none of it seems to help. Maybe you

"Albert the Great—what a joke."

'Care to join in some of my avoidance behaviour?'

'This prescription will stimulate your funny bone which will cause you to laugh. We both know that laughter is the best medicine.'

"Sometime I feel people go out of their way just to scare me."

I've been feeling sluggish lately.

"Teach me not to care."

'Pencil on couch being psycho analysed.'

'We're like one big family tree... that's why everyone is in therapy.'

Psychiatrist: Mind over matter filing trays.

"Why do you feel like you're lost?"

Psychiatrist to man dressed in baseball jersey: 'You've never gotten over the fact your father wouldn't play catch with you?'

'We auto mechanics get no respect!'

"The fact that I have multiple personalities and none of them are computer literate is depressing."

'Life's little wonders are too big for me.'

"No heroic measures."

"See? This is what I'm talking about! If you always show how happy you are to see everyone, you give them all the power in the relationship!"

"I'm sensing that the role-playing homework I gave you didn't work."

"Nobody loves me." "Yeah, nobody listens to me. Not even my wife." "My kids don't respect me."

"Since you ask, when I'm through here I go home and listen to a bunch of mindless crap on TV."

'I may not really need you. My imaginary friend is a psychiatrist.'

"You dawdle, daydream. You make lists of things to do but can't get started. You seem to be restricted from doing what you know you should be doing. These problems will dissolve when you read Chapter Ten of my new book, at eight dollars and ninety-five cents."

Can I take your disorder?

"Alexa, does this guy have mother issues?"

"I'm afraid that's a wrap for this session!"

"This obsession of yours about becoming a car mechanic..."

"About that insomnia...have you tried counting billable hours?"

Sardine psychologist.

Let's try something new, Al. I'll say a word, then you remain mercifully silent for the rest of the hour.

Cut out and keep your own Freud.

"Would it be possible to speak with the personality that pays the bills."

'Yes, we are going in circles. How do you feel about that?'