Psychological Addiction Quotes

#1. According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addicts. Of course, the real difference is that drug addicts aren't nearly as annoying.

Jay Leno

#2. This madman must be stopped.

Dianne Harman

#3. There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.

Dianne Harman

#4. Our brains are embodied - much of the problem with the debate over addiction and psychiatry more generally is a refusal to accept this and our ongoing need to see "physical," "neurological," and "psychological" as completely distinct.

Maia Szalavitz

#5. He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.

Dianne Harman

#6. She pulled off the highway and quickly changed into the burkha.

Dianne Harman

#7. Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.

Jess C. Scott

#8. It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.

Asa Don Brown

#9. Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It's a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots.

Charles Duhigg

#10. Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.

Deepak Chopra

#11. Honey, I usually get $300, but I like you, so I'll just take $200.

Dianne Harman

#12. The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.

William S. Burroughs

#13. The Old Ones say you can feel your spirit during a Vision Quest.

Dianne Harman

#14. He could still remember how the first sip of wine made him feel.

Dianne Harman