Top 60 Drew Pinsky Quotes

Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they’re going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment.

In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational grant by Glaxo Wellcome.

The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.

Nothing demonstrates a celebrity’s basic drive for attention more powerfully than a willingness to check one’s dignity at the door, week after week, in front of millions of viewers.

If someone wants to offer me some money to talk about something that I feel strongly about on Twitter – and I don’t feel it’s diminishing in any way my messages – I don’t see why not.

We are trying to learn from the consequences of one’s peers’ actions.

The way people get hooked on fame… it can behave very much like an addiction.

Guys are much happier when someone puts a limit on their behavior and causes them to make a real connection with another person.

The people and places that cause terror in childhood cause attraction in adulthood. We end up being repetitively attracted to the same kind of person that obliges us by acting out the same behavior over again.

In medicine you go from dying to chronically ill. You don’t go from dying to better than you ever knew you could be. That just doesn’t happen.

We want to blame people who have brain disorders – they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It’s a profound misconception.

I have no agenda.

I tell women to stop learning how to keep a man and make him happy, and to try figuring out what they want from a relationship, to trust their own instincts and not worry about pleasing someone else.

If you have a history of being attracted to people who have failed you in relationships, find people that aren’t so exciting and aren’t quite so attractive. Try that on for size and see if you can tolerate that.

An intervention is much more than telling someone they have a problem in a unified fashion; treatment options should be in place.

I’m a workaholic.

There are different techniques – some interventionists are really loving, others are very tough.

Women are upset if their partner has an intimate conversation of any kind with someone who isn’t them. They consider it a violation, a betrayal. Men should think this way, but they don’t.

We can all make better decisions when we’re informed.

Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions – addiction, depression.

When I started out, no one would talk to young people about HIV or AIDS. I looked around and radio looked like a powerful way to shape culture in a healthy way.

Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions – they’re too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary to affect regulation, self-esteem, sense of self and inter-personal functioning all goes downhill. And that’s a chronic thing that’s solved in an-inter personal context.

All medicine is gradations and differences and nuances. And there’s such a thing as natural recovery: people spontaneously get better. It happens.

For me, addiction exposes all of the brain mechanism under the influence of a profoundly distorted primary motivation. It’s such a window into how we function as human beings. And the patient doesn’t know that’s happening! Doesn’t believe that’s happening! That’s the fascinating part.

Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone’s depressed.

All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.

Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.

I love everything about the human experience.

I suppose I’m a healthier role model than, say, Slash of Guns N’ Roses.

Symptoms that may seem psychiatric or psychological can actually be signs of a medical condition.

People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.

Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.

When you get your viral load down to zero, you reduce the risk of transmission of HIV by 90 percent.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

Humans need intimacy. We’ve destroyed it in our country.

People now know of the word intervention and think they understand what it means, but more often than not they go about intervening the wrong way. I see people staging things on their own. But discussing the nature of somebody’s condition over breakfast isn’t an intervention.

When I run on the treadmill, I read. But I have found that the only way to read while on the treadmill is to hold the book, since it moves around too much on the stand, you move around too much. I’ve gotten very good at holding a book and running, which tends to screw up my neck a little bit.

I don’t want people to think I’m exploiting my followers.

An Internet ‘relationship’ doesn’t have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough.

Many aspects of the George Zimmerman trial have deeply affected me.

People who have had severe childhood traumas lack the ability to regulate emotions and, as a result, gravitate toward whatever primitive means they can come up with.

Millennials really don’t perceive hierarchies. They either don’t perceive them or don’t like them.

As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that as a physician I am capable of forcing someone to change their behavior, no matter how detrimental to their health.

People think you go to doctors for their knowledge. You don’t go to doctors for their knowledge. You go to doctors for their judgment, their instinct, what to do, how to make the right call.

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

It used to be radio was the place that young people gathered to get their information.

I’m too busy to block everyone on Twitter.

Students have tons of health and intimacy and relationship questions, and no one’s listening to them.

In love addiction that experience of: ‘Oh my God, I’m in love… I feel whole, and I feel like I’ve known this person forever.’ That is a feeling that you have to have all the time. You become addicted to it.

I’m deeply involved in big problems.

I tell everybody, no one understands how challenging and stressful practicing medicine is.

Medicine saved my life, quite literally. I woke up every day of my training thinking, ‘I love doing this,’ feeling like it was so important what I was doing.

Narcissism is the result of longstanding behavioral patterns that reflect fixed brain functioning. It requires a lot of motivation to change these patterns.

Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it.

Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in ‘Patrick Melrose.’

People have sort of been swirling around me, going, ‘Oh, you should run for mayor.’ Well I didn’t really want that job. ‘Well, you should run for governor.’ Well, that’s not really possible.

The term ‘doctor’ has been so abused lately! I didn’t live in a hospital for 10 years so that term could be bastardized.

Big people take care of little people; we must live up to that trust.

What people have trouble getting their head around is the idea that a celebrity, somebody whom they admire, somebody who seems to have everything, would even be depressed.

The problem with my peers is they don’t understand television. You have to work within the confines of what executives will allow you to put on TV. Otherwise, we’ve not done anything, we’ve not really struggled to change the culture at all.