Drew Pinsky Quotes

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Drew Pinsky

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : September 4, 1958

In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational grant by Glaxo Wellcome.

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Families that have addicted members learn to operate with secrecy.

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Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.

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You should hear all the people talking to me about Heath Ledger, and yet I'm the only person shooting his mouth off out there about what everyone actually already knows.

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A little whiff of a mental health issue never hurt anybody.

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The term 'doctor' has been so abused lately! I didn't live in a hospital for 10 years so that term could be bastardized.

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We are trying to learn from the consequences of one's peers' actions.

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Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it.

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If you have a history of being attracted to people who have failed you in relationships, find people that aren't so exciting and aren't quite so attractive. Try that on for size and see if you can tolerate that.

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If people fit together, they fit for a reason. It's usually the sickest part of one person fitting into the attraction of the sickest part of another.

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Romeo and Juliet' is two love addicts acting out, and look how that ended.

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What people have trouble getting their head around is the idea that a celebrity, somebody whom they admire, somebody who seems to have everything, would even be depressed.

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Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions - addiction, depression.

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People now know of the word intervention and think they understand what it means, but more often than not they go about intervening the wrong way. I see people staging things on their own. But discussing the nature of somebody's condition over breakfast isn't an intervention.

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An intervention is much more than telling someone they have a problem in a unified fashion; treatment options should be in place.

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There are different techniques - some interventionists are really loving, others are very tough.

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Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they're going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment.

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Crying is scary to men! To us, it's a sign that something completely earth-shattering is happening.

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Patrick Melrose' is a frantically accurate exploration of the addict mind tormented by trauma, magnificently brought to life by Benedict Cumberbatch. At its core, it is a story that has a timeless quality with echoes of Cervantes.

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Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in 'Patrick Melrose.'

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