#addiction

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#addictive #families #never #our #own

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#addiction #almost #choice #everybody #existed

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. ↗

— John Mayer

#addiction #displacing #except #had #his

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: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre. ↗

— Andy Behrman

#bipolar-disorder #blog #blogger #depression #insomnia

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#act #acting #addiction #attention #being

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. ↗

— Keith Miller

#attempts #because #best #calm #christian

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#choice #food #love #three #work

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively. ↗

— Dave Navarro

#creatively #had #hearts #jane #music

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#ecstatic #i #producing #started #work

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addictions #breaks #choose #down #going