Drew Pinsky

“I tell women to stop learning how to keep a man and make him happy, and to try figuring out what they want from a relationship, to trust their own instincts and not worry about pleasing someone else.”

“We can all make better decisions when we're informed.”

“I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing.”

“When I run on the treadmill, I read. But I have found that the only way to read while on the treadmill is to hold the book, since it moves around too much on the stand, you move around too much. I've gotten very good at holding a book and running, which tends to screw up my neck a little bit.”

“My goal was always to be part of pop culture and relevant to young people, to interact with the people they hold in high esteem.”

“Trauma super charges addiction and makes it really bad. It doesn't necessarily cause it, though it can trigger it. It's not necessarily the issue but if you have bad addiction, it's there.”

“I'm too busy to block everyone on Twitter.”

“We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.”

“The history of the office of First Lady had not been kind to those with mental health issues.”

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

“It used to be radio was the place that young people gathered to get their information.”

“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.”

“When I started out, no one would talk to young people about HIV or AIDS. I looked around and radio looked like a powerful way to shape culture in a healthy way.”

“Narcissism is the result of longstanding behavioral patterns that reflect fixed brain functioning. It requires a lot of motivation to change these patterns.”

“Symptoms that may seem psychiatric or psychological can actually be signs of a medical condition.”

“People who have had severe childhood traumas lack the ability to regulate emotions and, as a result, gravitate toward whatever primitive means they can come up with.”

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

“I was doing general medicine and during residency, I moonlighted at a psychiatric hospital and became very interested in the medical care of psychiatric patients.”

“Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.”

“Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.”