. . . 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,...

This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with`disease’. They know how to attach a doctor’s medical descriptions to hope.

This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he was once so gullible and needy that he drank deeply of such weak...

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

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 conditions, or a...

I ended up going into this big art historical argument.’ [Barry Blinderman] invoked, for example, Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim altarpiece, painted in the sixteenth century for a monastery where monks cared for people with skin diseases—so...

The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.

Stephanie, I’m begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can’t keep going like this.” – Morelli

The battle for self-control over an intense undesired habit consists of an endless series of skirmishes, in which our urges and our better angels clash several times each day.

So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?” she asks.”Rubbernecker,” I answer without hesitation. “You?””I’m a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed...

After I binged last night -or was it tonight – I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies….it...

There’s a pattern of brain changes that we have shown is common across various types of addiction that we’ve also seen in pathologically obese individuals,

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

That was the problem with love, though, wasn’t it. It couldn’t be helped, couldn’t be controlled. It just roared in and took whatever it wanted, destroyed whatever it wanted; the most dangerous addiction of all,...

Intensity-seeking is an enslavement of our own perpetuation. When we step out of the delirium of always seeking someone new, and meet the same old sad and lonely child within, our healing journey begins. Exhausting...