“You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.” KnowsMayWarDrugActivityStressCancerSpreadUsersTerminalTerminal Cancer Author:Tom McCall
“Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.” FeelsTryingSelfRealityWantedMemoriesSadnessGoes OnDrugStressAlcoholListsThank GodMonkeysLiquorNumbHooked Author:Johnny Depp
“Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place.” PeopleUseFoundDealsWatchesTvsDrinkDrugStressExtremesChillLeaving MeRamaAthleticsDealing With Stress Author:Frederick Lenz
“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.” YearsSchoolYoungCitiesPovertyFiveSawsTeacherViolenceNew YorkStudentsTaughtDrugActivityLowsAbuseStressImpactIncomeParksFive YearsSunsetNeighborhoodAffectedNew York CityClassroomDomestic ViolenceGangPublic SchoolElevenFive Year OldsSchool TeachersDrug AbuseLow Income Author:Sal Albanese
“Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.” WellsSufferingCausesHealingQualityGreaterSadnessExerciseDrugRootsSickStressImpactMedicineIllnessFactorsIntimacyDietsSmokingSurgeryQuality Of LifeGeneticsPrematureIncidencePremature Death Author:Dean Ornish
“Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.” IfsKindCan DoProudDrugCapableStressAddictDrug Addict Author:Bill James
“[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.” KnowsBookStoriesLife IsFallSexGriefTroubleRocksDrugMountainStressTheaterFalling In LoveTalesManagersRock And RollAnguishSan FranciscoPoloSex DrugsSex Drugs And Rock And Roll Author:Hunter S. Thompson