Crying is scary to men! To us, it’s a sign that something completely earth-shattering is happening. Drew Pinsky Read Quote
Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they’re going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment. Drew Pinsky Read Quote
There are different techniques – some interventionists are really loving, others are very tough. Drew Pinsky Read Quote
An intervention is much more than telling someone they have a problem in a unified fashion; treatment options should be in place. Drew Pinsky Read Quote
People now know of the word intervention and think they understand what it means, but more often than not they go about intervening the wrong way. I see people staging things on their own. But discussing the nature of somebody’s condition over breakfast isn’t an intervention. Drew Pinsky Read Quote
If people fit together, they fit for a reason. It’s usually the sickest part of one person fitting into the attraction of the sickest part of another. Drew Pinsky Read Quote
Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it. Drew Pinsky Read Quote
I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing. Drew Pinsky Read Quote
Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in ‘Patrick Melrose.’ Drew Pinsky Read Quote
