It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
Gabor MateWe may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.
Gabor MateIn the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects
Gabor Mate... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.
Gabor MateThe difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.
Gabor MateMedical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.
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