Alice Miller Quotes

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

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.

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.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

I'm always on the verge of death in my head.

I was a functional addict.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

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

I have an addiction. I have a mental illness.

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.

I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

My body is covered with bruises from pinching myself on a daily basis.

I'd go into the pub and start crying even before I'd had my first drink.

Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.