Gabor Mate Quotes

Biography: Gabor Maté is known for his expertise in addiction, stress, and child... more Biography: Gabor Maté is known for his expertise in addiction, stress, and childhood development. A retired physician, he spent over 20 years in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside working with patients suffering from addiction and mental illness. Maté is also a best-selling author and sought-after speaker on trauma and its impacts on health. less

"We don’t get to witness who we might have been if trauma hadn’t shaped us this way""We have an epidemic of stresses in the world that keeps people from being who they really are""The circuitry of addiction runs parallel to the circuitry of love""Contrary to what is often taught in schools, mental health is not merely about the absence of disease""The deepest psychological wounds are hidden from the conscious mind""Addiction is not a choice that anybody makes, it’s a response to pain""The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma, or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it""It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour""The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates""Not why the addiction but why the pain""The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain"

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