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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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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Men Love Wit

It's so self-evident that I have to live my own history, to remind people the fact that I got into radio back in the early '80s was because of AIDS and HIV. It was what motivated me - that was the topic that I felt was so important that I had to talk about it, educating young people about it.

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History Young People Young

When I started out, no one would talk to young people about HIV or AIDS. I looked around and radio looked like a powerful way to shape culture in a healthy way.

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Power Health Art

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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Men Anger Would

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

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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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God Art Years

We want to blame people who have brain disorders - they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It's a profound misconception.

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Who Want UN

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

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

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UN Try Troy

If you have a history of being attracted to people who have failed you in relationships, find people that aren't so exciting and aren't quite so attractive. Try that on for size and see if you can tolerate that.

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Relationship History You

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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Time Love God

If you're experiencing symptoms such as depression, anxiety, uncontrolled use of substances, or any other behaviors that affect your functioning, please see a professional.

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Your You Use

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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Relationship Your You

I suppose I'm a healthier role model than, say, Slash of Guns N' Roses.

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Health Up UN

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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Time Men Life

Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.

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T Secrets Secret

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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T Seems Seem

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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You World Want

Back in the day, I was the first non-recovering doctor working in recovery. People would say, 'You can't do that! We need recovering guys in this.' But usually recovering doctors have a lot of baggage and so there's a certain amount of liability with a recovering doctor. But of course it can be ideal.

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Work Age You

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

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Change T Sequence

I love running in Central Park.

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People now know of the word intervention and think they understand what it means, but more often than not they go about intervening the wrong way. I see people staging things on their own. But discussing the nature of somebody's condition over breakfast isn't an intervention.

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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'm interested in interpersonal space.

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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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People who have had severe childhood traumas lack the ability to regulate emotions and, as a result, gravitate toward whatever primitive means they can come up with.

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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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People have sort of been swirling around me, going, 'Oh, you should run for mayor.' Well I didn't really want that job. 'Well, you should run for governor.' Well, that's not really possible.

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

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

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We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

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

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

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We are trying to learn from the consequences of one's peers' actions.

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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'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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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'm too busy to block everyone on Twitter.

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In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational grant by Glaxo Wellcome.

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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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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.

Drew Pinsky

I tell everybody, no one understands how challenging and stressful practicing medicine is.

Drew Pinsky

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!

Drew Pinsky

When you get your viral load down to zero, you reduce the risk of transmission of HIV by 90 percent.

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

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