If there’s an addiction in the Clinton family, it’s to problem solving.
I spend a lot of time unpacking the pain surrounding my addiction – both my own and the pain I caused other people.
Addiction is a terrible thing.
I started stealing in ninth grade. And I don’t mean a pack of gum from the convenience store here and there. I mean stealing on the regular. It got really bad. It was one hundred percent an addiction.
I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.
My father left when I was really young, but he’s still living. There are things I wish I’d said that I didn’t and I don’t think I’ll ever get the opportunity to say. He’s battled addiction problems his entire life. I wish things were different. I wish there were a way my son could know him, know the good parts of him.
All behavioral or mood disorders – including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction – have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.
I’ve become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider’s dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it’s something of an addiction.
Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn’t touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard.
If someone is told they have depression or addiction, why don’t we allow them the same compassion and time for healing as if they were diagnosed with high blood pressure or diabetes? These are all illnesses for which treatment exists and recovery is possible.
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that’s toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
‘Higher Power’ was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It’s a very, very tough thing – very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.
Those struggling with addiction deserve nothing less than our best and we will not fail them.
I have a healthy addiction to binge-watching TV.
That is the one single word that the food industry hates: ‘addiction.’ They much prefer words like ‘crave-ability’ and ‘allure.’
I have the obsessiveness of someone who’s a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.
Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don’t do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job – that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.
Addiction’s some kind of disease? No, it’s not. It’s a mask for pain that usually comes from childhood and fatherlessness.
Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
If your social media addiction comes between your relationship, you might want to quit.
I got freed of all of my addictions January 16, 2009, but at that point I didn’t do a full surrender to Jesus. I didn’t give a full surrender until February 18, 2017, so there’s quite a story in between where God was still chasing me.
We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: ‘You simply don’t understand – how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?’ But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.
Jane’s Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment ‘Roseanne’ dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!
Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
If I have one addiction in life, it’s probably food.
I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn’t in show business, I’d have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It’s kinda sick.
I played basketball at Kentucky in 1986-87 and ’87-88 and enjoyed a 12-year NBA career. After multiple injuries and seven surgeries, I developed an addiction to prescription painkillers.
Cellphones are very addictive. Even if one goes to rehab to get rid of this addiction, it’s not going to work.
Collection is an addiction.
I have an iPhone, but that’s just because I need to take pictures of my 5- and 8 1/2-year-old kids. It becomes quite easily an addiction for people who aren’t even aware that they’re addicted.
Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
At school, I was only allowed four sweets every Wednesday, so I’ve developed an addiction.
We must start 24/7 ERs dedicated to addiction and mental health.
Although I eat healthily, I do enjoy a greasy fry-up, but usually only once a year. I’ve also got a big Kit-Kat addiction and buy them in bulk.
