... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All I did was find a ticket on a one-way train. ... Give me peace before I die. The track is laid out so well; we all live our private hell; just more tickets on the hell-bound train.

Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects

Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.