We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

An intervention is much more than telling someone they have a problem in a unified fashion; treatment options should be in place.

All medicine is gradations and differences and nuances. And there's such a thing as natural recovery: people spontaneously get better. It happens.

I'm deeply involved in big problems.

I'm too busy to block everyone on Twitter.

Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing.

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.

The way people get hooked on fame... it can behave very much like an addiction.

Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.

In terms of establishing a connection between a therapist and a patient, that work needs to be done in person.

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

Addiction is not a curable condition.

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.

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

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.

The term 'doctor' has been so abused lately! I didn't live in a hospital for 10 years so that term could be bastardized.

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 love everything about the human experience.

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

I'm an internist by training.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.