Quotes About Recovery

even for a meth addict. She was sleeping

Look at PTSD as weight," she says. "If you're carrying, say, five pounds, you can fix that. If you're carrying five hundred pounds, you'll die.

I am convinced that the world doesn't break in the face of its worst possible deed. The world mends itself.

It was like someone looking at a horrible battlefield wound and saying, "Let's put a Band-Aid on this thing, patch it right up!

wondered at the human brain's ability to seize on some terrible personal event and let that event define and control every action for years, decades, even lifetimes.

Something like this changes you, it breaks you into pieces and puts you back together, but the sum total is different.

because after Jacobi and I got shot on Larkin

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.

Unfortunately, my football career wasn't very long. The reason I finished playing was because I fractured both ankles in a matter of months.

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

After my triple bypass I got my sheet of healthy and unhealthy foods and I was like, croissants!?! Literally as bad as lard.

I had a very unhealthy relationship with food that turned into bulimia.

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

I thought that I had a really healthy relationship with food, and I went home to my parents' house for a week because I cut my foot, and was recovering. I just ate loads, ate family meals, went along with group activities. And I realized how unhealthy my relationship actually is with food.

In the back of my mind for many years, I had always felt that my relationship with alcohol, although seemingly harmless was unhealthy and somewhat destructive.

I was in an unhealthy cycle. I was drinking too much. I wasn't eating well. And everything I thought I was doing right wasn't working.

My relationship in the past with alcohol has been both good fun and unhealthy.

Obviously, it's unheard of for anybody to come back from this type of injury that Edge had.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.