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“Here’s a simple test to check and see if you have surrendered or if you are still struggling with control. When you are miserable, stressed, doubtful, and fearful, you are in control. When you are ...”
“Our brains are embodied—much of the problem with the debate over addiction and psychiatry more generally is a refusal to accept this and our ongoing need to see “physical,” “neurological,” and “psy...”
“What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.”
“Know what’s worse than cold turkey? Just a little bump. One tiny sip to take the edge off. The edges never went away, they only got sharper. Every addict would tell you. Gray areas couldn’t exist i...”
“a detestable, viscous place populated by slugs”
“All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.”
“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the roa...”
“Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.”
“The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict...”
“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.”
“He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and ...”
“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
“The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.”
“Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.”
“If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.”
“she said, “I swear, I put something in my mouth one time, and I’m addicted. I think I have oral fixation issues.”
“Under the influence, I am easily influenced. I try to keep my pants on, but some things are easier said than done.”
“In the soft light of morning, the sky outside turning light blue, my answer is always and still: “I’m fine.”
“My slurred speech isn’t from one or nine drinks too many, it’s from my father.”
“My blood makes noise. And I’m saying this now, because I have a strange gut feeling that it will be silenced someday soon.”
