#addiction

I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#anti-twilight #dark-humor #drugs #gluttony #heroin

YANNI “JOHNNY” BACOLAS: I would always tell him, “Layne [Staley], why don’t you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the best counselors, and just kick this shit? Go for six months if you have to.” And his rebuttal was, “Johnny, I have celebrity status and I have a lot of money. I could fly planes out to deliver me the dope if I wanted to — and that’s what I would do. I can’t escape. ↗

— Greg Prato

#celebrity #heroin #money

. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other people — it just wouldn’t suit them. ↗

— Jo Nesbø

#lifestyle #attitude

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#always #am #food #how #i

Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours. It is present in the gambler, the Internet addict, the compulsive shopper and the workaholic. The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain. ↗

— Gabor Maté

#behavior #psychology #stress #experience

I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile. ↗

— Steve Brown

#addiction #big #bring #fat #i

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#always #bathroom #bit #blackberry #hiding

I have a writing addiction. ↗

— Prince

#i #writing

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#form #merely #most #obvious #our

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#apparatus #belief #effect #elicit #maintain