Quotes from Drew Pinsky

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

I love running in Central Park.

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.

If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.

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

Millennials really don't perceive hierarchies. They either don't perceive them or don't like them.

I'm deeply involved in big problems.

Brains affect brains through far more means than words and listening.

All medicine is gradations and differences and nuances. And there's such a thing as natural recovery: people spontaneously get better. It happens.

I've had people that I've given up on, kicked out - situations where I was becoming part of the problem because I was sort of enabling so I said, 'Godspeed, farewell.' And they've come back to me four years later and they're in a CDAAC program or they're getting a PhD.

I trust my recovering peers completely. I'll occasionally look sideways at them because they're addicts but it would break my heart and surprise me to find out that any of these people were lying. Still, addiction is cunning and baffling and you never know.

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.

Addiction is not a curable condition.

If you're experiencing symptoms such as depression, anxiety, uncontrolled use of substances, or any other behaviors that affect your functioning, please see a professional.

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

I always hate taking categorical positions.

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

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

The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.

From a health standpoint, I have metabolic syndrome, I have high triglycerides, low HDL, body fat centrally located, high blood pressure. Running really helps control my weight and that problem a lot. So if I am not running three days a week, I really miss it.

I've been busily lifting weights since I was 14, but in college I started running as a way to reduce stress, as I recall.

Here's the acid test for appropriateness: Pretend that someone near and dear to you is witnessing what you are writing or sending, or knows what you are thinking about sending. If, say, your partner saw this behavior, how would he or she feel? That you are asking yourself this question could mean that you shouldn't be doing it!

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

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.