Addiction Quote by Edward Boyden

These diseases, both alcoholism and addiction, much like bipolar or depression and different illnesses, are still not seen as real diseases. People shy away…

— Jim Irsay

“The brain-disease model takes control over people’s fate out of their own hands and puts doctors and insurance companies in charge of fixing their…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment.

— Syesha Mercado

I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape.…

— James Hillman

Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling…

— Allen Frances

This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

— Sidney Jourard

There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesses,…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric…

— Craig Johnson

Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.

— Nicholas Sparks

Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.

— Byron Katie

“This is what happens to the brain of those living with mental illnesses (more accurately, "brain illnesses"). The brain does not function as it…

— Kevin Hines

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere…

— Eric Kandel