There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
If something's stressful I've always tended to just find ways of avoiding it rather than rising to meet it or try to change it.
Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.
Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!
I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.
You remind me of someone with a bad toothache who's hitting herself in the head with a hammer to distract herself from the pain in her mouth.
I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.
I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have.
Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.
We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these things come up because they are lessons. It's a way to wake you up.
All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.
I used to hurt myself by training all the time.
Drinking, eating, shopping, revenge, rebound sex, drugs or whatever your poison may be will number the pain - but that's all.
I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong. I escape into food. But some people escape into books. Some into relationships that might not be good for them. The three main characters in 'The Sugar Queen' struggle with each of these comforts-turned-crutches.
Avoidance is a wonderful therapy
