People think you go to doctors for their knowledge. You don't go to doctors for their knowledge. You go to doctors for their judgment, their instinct, what to do, how to make the right call.
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Families that have addicted members learn to operate with secrecy.
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Nothing demonstrates a celebrity's basic drive for attention more powerfully than a willingness to check one's dignity at the door, week after week, in front of millions of viewers.
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In terms of establishing a connection between a therapist and a patient, that work needs to be done in person.
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A little whiff of a mental health issue never hurt anybody.
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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.
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Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they're going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment.
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I love everything about the human experience.
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Students have tons of health and intimacy and relationship questions, and no one's listening to them.