David Sheff Quotes

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• The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this…
• Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.
• Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that…
• This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed…
• If you subscribe to the idea that #‎ addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious,…
• How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.
• I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.
• I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range…
• Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want…
• How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
• I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry...
• Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.
• Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable.…
• At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar…
• A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
• An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
• When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where…
• Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught…
• We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.
• Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

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