“I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.” WayFeelsWellsSocialSituationDrinkDrugNormalAlcoholNervousUncomfortableGuts Author:Johnny Depp
“Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.” KnowsYearsStillsDifferentHomeFeltSituationDrugConversationComfortableAddictionCommunicateShyInabilityGangShynessDrug AddictionDrug AddictInvertedInability To Communicate Author:Elton John
“I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.” ThinkingWantFeelsMayDifferentRealSongParentSpaceSituationRight NowDrugPercentTrackAlbumsIntenseFeel GoodLots Of MoneyAutobiographyReal Things Author:Nicki Minaj
“Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about it all the time, getting into some kind of crazy situation in order to get drugs or to get money for drugs, pulling off something where they fall from a building and land on a truck full of pillows. It's incredible will, and if you learn to focus that will on getting better instead of getting worse it's amazing what you can do with that. You can use that strength and resourcefulness for something real instead of scoring dope in a desert.” IfsKindRealUseOrderFallEnergyGoalCan DoSituationFocusGraceCrazyLandBuildingDrugLuckIncrediblesDesertGet BetterPullingAddictTruckPillowDopeGet MoneySomething RealResourcefulness Author:Bucky Sinister
“From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.” HumansChildrenStoriesSufferingSituationClearSadnessDyingEasierDrugAbuseAgreeAddictionStartingIllnessRanEtcMisfortunesShort StoryLoved OnesChild AbusePersonal ExperiencesDrug AddictionHindsightDrug AddictStarting OutTerminalHuman SufferingTerminal IllnessLoved One Dying Author:Anthony Marra
“Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. With Regression, I was certainly in Alejandro's [Amenabar] hands.” KindHandsWantedSituationStudyPeriodsDrugAddictionHolesObsessedComing OutRabbitsDrug AddictionDrug AddictBakersRegressionRabbit HolesChet Baker Author:Ethan Hawke
“I do think that if you were to be scrupulous and research into it you would find that certain types of natural psychedelics have, if anything, anti-addictive properties. And all the evidence really points towards that. But you have the people who are running these drug rehab situations, they demonized all the drugs.” PeopleIfsThinkingRunningCertainNaturalSituationTypeDrugResearchEvidencePropertyRehab Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“I grew up in a really bad situation; my father left when I was young - you know, an abusive situation. So the minute I put my fingers on a guitar and closed my eyes and just played, it literally was like a drug. It took me into a totally different world, and I just pulled from emotions and experiences that I was going through.” KnowsWorldDifferentEyeYoungFatherLeftEmotionSituationMinutesGrewDrugGrew UpFingersGuitarDifferent WorldsAbusiveBad Situations Author:DJ Ashba
“Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in that part of the brain is designed by evolution to get us to persist despite negative consequences to do what we need to do - because I don't know anybody who could survive a relationship or parenting if not for the ability to persist despite negative consequences. The problem is when that gets misdirected to a drug and then you can find yourself in some very negative and potentially deadly situations.” IfsKnowsNeedsChildrenProblemFallAbilityBrainSituationEvolutionLoversDrugConsequenceNegativeFalling In LoveAddictionDespiteFinding YourselfPersistNegative Consequences Author:Maia Szalavitz
“I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start out as the intention to serve and protect the lives of the innocent within the animal kingdom. I wanted to test myself, to see if I was able to overcome the dire situation that I was headed toward. By this of course I mention the fact that I was an alcoholic and drug addict before I left to live in the wild.” IfsFactsWould BeAbleWantedCoursesLeftAnimalSituationDrugProtectTestsOvercomingIntentionKingdomsInnocentAddictAlcoholicsDrug AddictAnimal Kingdom Author:Timothy Treadwell
“So much of our politics is stuck in patterns of response that aren't working. When student performance is declining in schools, we implement more controls, more testing, more "accountability," more rigor. We apply even more of those things, from security systems to control of students' behavior through pharmaceutical drugs. That's a situation in which doing is only making things worse. You may have to go through a phase of de-programming, letting go of old habits, coming to stillness, before you can even see what the pattern of action was, and what alternatives there might be.” ActionSchoolSituationSecurityStudentsHabitDrugLetting GoBehaviorResponseStuckAccountabilityStillnessPharmaceutical Author:Charles Eisenstein
“[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face. 'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked.” SeemsFacesNextRoomsSituationSawsTroubleDrugStandingDoctorsPatientTraumaKnivesOrderlyClerksLooking Down Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories