Anxiety Quote by Donna Tartt

When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.

— Larry Clark

“We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance that this problem be addressed.…

— Michael Bihovsky

“also severely degenerated the tissue of his rostral anterior cingulate cortex, an area in the front of the brain that acts as a kind…

— Nathan Hill

I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a…

— Dan Rather

“It isn’t the body falling in unrequited love with a dangerous drug, but rather the mind learning to associate any substance or behavior with…

— Adam Alter

With the situation I was in when I was shot down, I self-identified as having PTSD.

— MJ Hegar

“Much has been written on the subject of bed-books. The general consensus of opinion is that a gentle, slow-moving story makes the best opiate”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Opiates are, by their very nature, about forgetting. When you're in that narcotic haze, memory functions like some mutant projector, a hell-tuned Bell &…

— Jerry Stahl

“Most psychotherapies are designed to patch up wounded people and then throw them back into the battle of oppositions. They guide people in how…

— Robert A. Johnson

“The off-drug patients also suffered less from depression, blunted emotions, and retarded movements. Indeed, they told Carpenter and McGlashan that they had found it…

— Robert Whitaker

“In fact, scholars have noted that many trauma survivors appear at times even to seek out their further traumatization through various self-destructive reenactments and…

— Paul Frewen

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.

— Peter A. Levine