Top 119 Quotes & Sayings by Drew Pinsky

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American celebrity Drew Pinsky.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

David Drew Pinsky, commonly known as Dr. Drew, is an American media personality, internist, and addiction medicine specialist. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline from the show's inception in 1984 until its end in 2016. On television, he hosted the talk show Dr. Drew On Call on HLN and the daytime series Lifechangers on The CW. In addition, he served as producer and starred in the VH1 show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, and its spinoffs Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, Celebrity Rehab Presents Sober House. Pinsky currently hosts several podcasts, including The Dr. Drew Podcast, This Life with Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew After Dark on the Your Mom's House network, and The Adam and Drew Show with his former Loveline co-host Adam Carolla.

American - Celebrity | Born: September 4, 1958

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You don't have to have a physical relationship with someone other than your spouse or significant other to betray him or her.

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If someone wants to offer me some money to talk about something that I feel strongly about on Twitter - and I don't feel it's diminishing in any way my messages - I don't see why not.

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I was doing general medicine and during residency, I moonlighted at a psychiatric hospital and became very interested in the medical care of psychiatric patients.

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Many aspects of the George Zimmerman trial have deeply affected me.

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Women are upset if their partner has an intimate conversation of any kind with someone who isn't them. They consider it a violation, a betrayal. Men should think this way, but they don't.

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Narcissism is not about self love. It's a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy.

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I tell young people all the time, and now I'm telling anyone, no matter what your age: You can't take back the stuff you put out there on Twitter and Facebook, even e-mails.

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I'm deeply involved in big problems.

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Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone's depressed.

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Students have tons of health and intimacy and relationship questions, and no one's listening to them.

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Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.

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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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An Internet 'relationship' doesn't have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough.

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I rescue people.

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I tell women to stop learning how to keep a man and make him happy, and to try figuring out what they want from a relationship, to trust their own instincts and not worry about pleasing someone else.

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I've had people that I've given up on, kicked out - situations where I was becoming part of the problem because I was sort of enabling so I said, 'Godspeed, farewell.' And they've come back to me four years later and they're in a CDAAC program or they're getting a PhD.

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Addiction is not a curable condition.

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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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When I run on the treadmill, I read. But I have found that the only way to read while on the treadmill is to hold the book, since it moves around too much on the stand, you move around too much. I've gotten very good at holding a book and running, which tends to screw up my neck a little bit.

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Symptoms that may seem psychiatric or psychological can actually be signs of a medical condition.

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If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.

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Humans need intimacy. We've destroyed it in our country.

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All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.

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We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

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Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in 'Patrick Melrose.'

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The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.

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I do not know Rep. Weiner. But I do know he seems to have the features of a narcissist. Narcissists feel empty. Narcissists feel invincible. But their emotional landscape is barren.

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Patrick Melrose' is a frantically accurate exploration of the addict mind tormented by trauma, magnificently brought to life by Benedict Cumberbatch. At its core, it is a story that has a timeless quality with echoes of Cervantes.

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Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary to affect regulation, self-esteem, sense of self and inter-personal functioning all goes downhill. And that's a chronic thing that's solved in an-inter personal context.

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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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Narcissism is the result of longstanding behavioral patterns that reflect fixed brain functioning. It requires a lot of motivation to change these patterns.

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I love everything about the human experience.

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I have no agenda.

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I'm an internist by training.

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Thank God I'm a horrible musician. Good singer, horrible musician.

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I love running in Central Park.

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What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

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We can all make better decisions when we're informed.

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I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

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The Internet is a seemingly unreal environment where we think we are anonymous. It's a potentially provocative place. As a result, we may not behave the way we would in the real world. Some of us are drawn into what could become a dangerous situation.

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As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that as a physician I am capable of forcing someone to change their behavior, no matter how detrimental to their health.

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The people and places that cause terror in childhood cause attraction in adulthood. We end up being repetitively attracted to the same kind of person that obliges us by acting out the same behavior over again.

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I've been busily lifting weights since I was 14, but in college I started running as a way to reduce stress, as I recall.

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From a health standpoint, I have metabolic syndrome, I have high triglycerides, low HDL, body fat centrally located, high blood pressure. Running really helps control my weight and that problem a lot. So if I am not running three days a week, I really miss it.

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I don't want people to think I'm exploiting my followers.

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Trauma super charges addiction and makes it really bad. It doesn't necessarily cause it, though it can trigger it. It's not necessarily the issue but if you have bad addiction, it's there.

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Millennials really don't perceive hierarchies. They either don't perceive them or don't like them.

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People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.

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My goal was always to be part of pop culture and relevant to young people, to interact with the people they hold in high esteem.

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Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.

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In medicine you go from dying to chronically ill. You don't go from dying to better than you ever knew you could be. That just doesn't happen.

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Here's the acid test for appropriateness: Pretend that someone near and dear to you is witnessing what you are writing or sending, or knows what you are thinking about sending. If, say, your partner saw this behavior, how would he or she feel? That you are asking yourself this question could mean that you shouldn't be doing it!

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Remember, you're not always the professional.

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Medicine saved my life, quite literally. I woke up every day of my training thinking, 'I love doing this,' feeling like it was so important what I was doing.

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For me, addiction exposes all of the brain mechanism under the influence of a profoundly distorted primary motivation. It's such a window into how we function as human beings. And the patient doesn't know that's happening! Doesn't believe that's happening! That's the fascinating part.

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Big people take care of little people; we must live up to that trust.

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If people fit together, they fit for a reason. It's usually the sickest part of one person fitting into the attraction of the sickest part of another.

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The problem with my peers is they don't understand television. You have to work within the confines of what executives will allow you to put on TV. Otherwise, we've not done anything, we've not really struggled to change the culture at all.

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In love addiction that experience of: 'Oh my God, I'm in love... I feel whole, and I feel like I've known this person forever.' That is a feeling that you have to have all the time. You become addicted to it.

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Guys are much happier when someone puts a limit on their behavior and causes them to make a real connection with another person.

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