Barbara de Angelis Quotes

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

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.

I do not understand rehab. If it works for people, then God bless them.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.

I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

Alcoholics are amazed when I admit to them my addiction to work. Here I have a ground of real and not imagined empathy with them. Against the background of this, I have dubbed this addiction of myself and my fellow ministers as “workaholism.”