Support Group Quotes

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

Games helped me a lot when The Rev died. It was something I able to go do and stay in the house and not have to be outside and deal with people. But I also found a community online that I was able to escape the feeling I was having of losing a best friend.

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Addiction is a crazy disease. It's a progressive disease when it's not dealt with; it don't care who it takes, and it takes it all. You wind up losing your house, your home, your reputation.

Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it.

We need to provide people access to treatment options that work for them, which should include long-term access to medication, behavioral therapy and family support services.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

I have an addiction. I have a mental illness.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't lecture them against the perils of drug-taking; I gave them drama therapy.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.

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.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

Families that have addicted members learn to operate with secrecy.

I'm trying to reach out for help as much as I can. That's why I got into a rehab program. That's why I get counseling. That's why I have a sponsor.

I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.

I had to sit down and explain to [her friend] that AA was for quitters

I got sober at age forty-two.

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

I did a comedy with Al Franken about his character Stuart Smalley, which was really about alcoholism and addiction and codependency. It had some painful stuff in it. When we showed it to focus groups, some of them actually said, "If I want to see a dysfunctional family, I'll stay home."

Alcoholics are amazed when I admit to them my addiction to work. Here I have a ground of real and not imagined empathy with them. Against the background of this, I have dubbed this addiction of myself and my fellow ministers as “workaholism.”

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.