Drew Pinsky
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.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Medical
Symptoms that may seem psychiatric or psychological can actually be signs of a medical condition.Collection: Medical
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.
Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.
I'm interested in interpersonal space.
We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.
Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.
We can all make better decisions when we're informed.
The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.
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.
What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.
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.
I don't want people to think I'm exploiting my followers.
I love everything about the human experience.
Thank God I'm a horrible musician. Good singer, horrible musician.
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.
I'm deeply involved in big problems.
I'm an internist by training.
Millennials really don't perceive hierarchies. They either don't perceive them or don't like them.
Many aspects of the George Zimmerman trial have deeply affected me.
Remember, you're not always the professional.
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.
If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.
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.
You don't have to have a physical relationship with someone other than your spouse or significant other to betray him or her.
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.
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!
An Internet 'relationship' doesn't have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough.
Addiction is not a curable condition.
I'm a workaholic.
I have no agenda.
People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.
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.
Students have tons of health and intimacy and relationship questions, and no one's listening to them.
Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone's depressed.
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.
Guys are much happier when someone puts a limit on their behavior and causes them to make a real connection with another person.
I have a pretty keen ethical compass.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I rescue people.
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.
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.
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.
I love running in Central Park.
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.
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.