Gabor Maté, In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction Quotes
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.
Passion creates, addiction consumes.