Self Medicating Quotes

• I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate...often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them.

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  Mark Driscoll

  Opportunity   Maturity   Self  

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• Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

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  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running   Self   Smoking  

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• Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

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  Abiola Abrams

  Epidemics   Self   Trying  

  Abiola Abrams (2014). “The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love: The 11 Secrets of Feminine Power”, p.131, El Dorado Publishing

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• We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.

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  Norman Cousins

  Pain   Self   Challenges  

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• If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

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  Al Roker

  Bad Day   Self   Abuse  

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• Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.

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  Elizabeth Lesser

  Self   Skills   People  

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was over self-medicating back when I was a kid and didn't know it.

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  Larry Clark

  Kids   Self   Back When  

  "Larry Clark’s America". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.

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• I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me.

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  Mpho Koaho

  Pain   Emotional   Self  

  "Actor Mpho Koaho: The vulnerable nature of acting, investing in youth programs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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