Environmental Effects Quotes by Gabor Mate

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• A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from…
• The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans,…
• It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the…
• Not why the addiction, but why the pain.
• The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.
• In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental…
• A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the…
• We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which…

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