784 quotes found
“The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct cause is diagnosed, healing will take place and hoped-for cure will...”
“Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent with what is true, an inability to cope with current...”
“Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.”
“The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.”
“There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.”
“I dye my jeans jet black once a week, but they never seem dark enough. I bleach my hair bright white twice a month but it never seems light enough. I drink two and a half bottles of champagne every...”
“When the door to suicide opens it becomes a viable option that you never considered before, but, once ajar, it initiates an invasion strategy. Day by day thoughts blacken under the occupation of th...”
“The silver flask called to him.Blue Coyote Motel”
“Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.”
“You know when you send a text message to someone and you don't get a response right away, you feel depressed? You send a text message to someone you really like and you get a response right away yo...”
“It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.”
“I never lie I am a blatantly truthful person about almost everything. My addiction (or disease as some call it) always lies. I have had very good relationships, but the addict in me always fucked t...”
“Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: t...”
“An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive...a must read!”
“With patience and perseverance my day will come!”
“Reading is an addiction that I adore.”
“I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.”
“He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.”
“Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.”
“Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it,but you love it anyway and can never get enough.”
