An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

I couldn’t stop so I quit.

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.

Teen “addiction” to social media is a new extension of typical human engagement. Their use of social media as their primary site of sociality is most often a byproduct of cultural dynamics that have nothing...

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

Life is an addiction Wind to feel ,Love to crave ,Power to have ,Cigarette’s to smoke.

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane’s Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell...

I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.

Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely…change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am...

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to...

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn’t try.

A Short Alternative Medical DictionaryDefinitions courtesy of Dr Lemuel Pillmeister (also known as Lemmy)Addiction – When you can give up something any time, as long as it’s next Tuesday.Cocaine – Peruvian Marching Powder. A stimulant...

People addicted with technology.Technology has indulged mankind. Beware of technology dependency!

One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments…is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is ‘dis-ease.

Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things....

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

When you are secure in yourself, know what turns you on, and enjoy watching your partner watch you experience sexual pleasure, you have a highly novel relationship grounded in love. The experience of seeing and...

What American would not want truthful and complete information about every product sold in the United States so that we can be more capable of making wise decisions concerning our lives and the lives of...

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you’ll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy,in silence and isolation.

The hardcore drug addicts that I treat, are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse. These people all enter life under extremely adverse circumstances. Not only did they...

I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction, … But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

I must give due praise to the man who first extracted morphine from poppyheads. He was a true benefactor of mankind. The pain stopped seven minutes after the injection. Interesting: the pain passed over me...

Black-and-white thinking is the addict’s mentality, which can be a bar to recovery when one is still active. But an addict who finds the willingness can then rely on the same trait to stay clean:...

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn’t know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark...

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

Do we? Our problem is whatever wedges between us and God.

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...

Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.

I didn’t want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body.

I don’t care what you think about it. So you have a choice. I can sit here and do it in front of you, or I can keep running into the bathroom so you don’t...

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal,...

If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA’s state-funded Ennet House, you will acquire many exotic...

Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who...

Sitting cross-legged on her bed, I watch her take out her gear. She’s been smoking so much the room stinks of it. Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen her do it so often I’ve...

Sex had nothing to do with feeling good, everything to do with superficialities, and was always accompanied by a masochistic agenda to feel anything but dead inside.

I understand addiction now. I never did before, you know. How could a man (or a woman) do something so self-destructive, knowing that they’re hurting not only themselves, but the people they love? It seemed...

I smoked my first pipe with Seth. I knew the stuff was bad, but I was so tired of being the cop, begging and ragging at him, throwing Pampers in his face when he walked...

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

It was definitely a gambling addiction that started about four years ago,

I am a work in progress.

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form,...