Quotes About Recovery

Memorize the three Cs and the three Gs: I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it. get off their back. get out of the way. get on with your own life.

Children who witness violence experience many of the same ill effects as those who are directly abused.

Remember, to someone with BPD, making a mistake means being a mistake.)

detach with love Some family members practice detaching with love, a concept promoted by Al-Anon,

Borderlines with abusive backgrounds may be replaying scripts from the past.

chemotherapy as a cancer cure is pathetic.

We also learned the medical world calls a patient 'cured' if the cancer doesn't return within five years.

It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.

There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

That's what terrible, sordid situations did to you, made you act crazily, against your own truths, against yourself.

In all my years of living in the bush, I had never caught malaria or any other of the terrible fevers or plagues. Now I was felled by something just as serious though more difficult to name—an illness of the spirit.

But he'd "got a leg," as they say in horse speak. Before he'd come to Soysambu, he'd been overtrained, and his tendons had become sensitive, with a tendency to swell.

I haven't been drunk in over a year—not since my mother fell seriously ill—and I've missed the way it comes with its own perfect glove of fog, settling snugly and beautifully over my brain. I don't want to think and I don't want to feel,

He was going to have somebody reading the evening news to him for quite some time.

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you're all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

When something's lost I wanna fight to get it back again

Desperté seis horas después, con una formidable erección. El mejor afrodisíaco es descansar el cerebro.

the people in my life didn't destroy me. i destroyed myself with intense feelings of inadequacy.

How can I be sure it won't happen again?" she demanded. "By letting your heart heal and being careful not to rush into anything. By finding a man who will treat you with the love and respect you deserve.

Some wounds are so great that the only way to survive is to lock them up in a little box and put them somewhere deep inside,

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Where does all the pain go once you're done with the healing?

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

I've never had one person whom I've helped say, 'Doc, I wish you would have left me crazy on the streets.