“Loneliness has been similarly associated with diminished immune activity in a group of psychiatric inpatients.” — Gabor Maté Loneliness Copy Share Image
“Central to any understanding of stress, health and disease is the concept of adaptiveness. Adaptiveness is the capacity to respond to external… — Gabor Maté Depression Copy Share Image
“We have to understand that medicine is not simply a science. It's much more than that. It's also an ideology. It's a… — Gabor Maté Medicine Copy Share Image
“The most important finding of research into a genetic role for alcoholism is that there is no such thing as a gene… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Genes can be activated or turned off by factors in the environment. In the Cree population of northwestern Ontario, for example, diabetes… — Gabor Maté Attention deficit disorder Copy Share Image
“Strong convictions do not necessarily signal a powerful sense of self: very often quite the opposite. Intensely held beliefs may be no… — Gabor Maté Faith Copy Share Image
“A therapist once said to me, “If you face the choice between feeling guilt and resentment, choose the guilt every time.” It… — Gabor Maté Anger Copy Share Image
“Everyone has an urge to create. Its expression may flow through many channels: through writing, art or music, through the inventiveness of… — Gabor Maté Art Copy Share Image
“Peer-oriented young people thus face two grave psychological risks that more than suffice to make vulnerability unbearable and provoke their brains into… — Gabor Maté Cold water Copy Share Image
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the… — Gabor Mate Addict Copy Share Image
“Interactions with the world program our physiological and psychological development. Emotional contact is as important as physical contact. The two are quite… — Gabor Maté Autoimmune disease Copy Share Image
“The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“Attacking family members is all too typical of peer-oriented children, leaving parents and siblings wounded. In most cases, the attacks will not… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“One of my earliest memories is from around age three or four—sitting in a dress by myself playing with a doll. I… — Gabor Maté Healing process Copy Share Image
“Violent atrocities by teenagers against one another have become the stuff of headlines: at Columbine High School in Colorado; in Tabor, Alberta;… — Gabor Maté Bullying Copy Share Image
“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.” — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side. I believe there is one addiction process, whether it is manifested… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Emotional competence requires the capacity to feel our emotions, so that we are aware when we are experiencing stress; the ability to… — Gabor Maté Approval of others Copy Share Image
“Dismissing addictions as “bad habits” or “self-destructive behaviour” comfortably hides their functionality in the life of the addict. It is impossible to… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“The repeated finding that people with happier, less troubled thought patterns can suffer more illness seems to defy common sense. The general… — Gabor Maté Good health Copy Share Image
“It is easy to misinterpret the child's counterwill as a drive for power. We may never be fully in control of our… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“Do I live my life according to my own deepest truths, or in order to fulfill someone else’s expectations? How much of… — Gabor Maté Faith Copy Share Image
“The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates. Passion is divine fire: it… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Walking through the halls of my son's high school during lunch hour recently, I was struck by how similar it felt to… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
