self-medication

Indeed, talking points on both the right and left wings continue to argue that the post-Lehman, AIG implosion crisis that led to TARP, with global markets shutting down and more sirens and flashing lights than at Fukushima, was not really a meltdown, but just a few days of pain that would have cleared itself up through either self-medication (from the right) or nationalization (from the left).

Robert Teitelman: Tett on TARP and the Apocalypse Robert Teitelman 2011

And into counseling or group therapy before her adventures in self-medication ended in razor blades and blood again.

Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

It is always a coping mechanism of sorts, self-medication to deal with stress, and a means of giving oneself a sense of control over oneself, especially because one cannot control one's environment and life events.

Edison Peña's marathon of endurance Matt Seaton 2010

Indeed, talking points on both the right and left wings continue to argue that the post-Lehman, AIG implosion crisis that led to TARP, with global markets shutting down and more sirens and flashing lights than at Fukushima, was not really a meltdown, but just a few days of pain that would have cleared itself up through either self-medication (from the right) or nationalization (from the left).

Robert Teitelman: Tett on TARP and the Apocalypse Robert Teitelman 2011

And into counseling or group therapy before her adventures in self-medication ended in razor blades and blood again.

Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

In The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs, Dr. Julie Holland, a psychatrist and emergency physician, explains that the hiding and lying of illegal and prohibited drug use leads to a pervasive feeling of shame, and that shame creates more of the intensely negative feelings and emotional states that lead to self-medication as a means of escape.

Charles Shaw: Chasing Amy: Prohibition & the Infantilization Of Addiction Charles Shaw 2011

In The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs, Dr. Julie Holland, a psychatrist and emergency physician, explains that the hiding and lying of illegal and prohibited drug use leads to a pervasive feeling of shame, and that shame creates more of the intensely negative feelings and emotional states that lead to self-medication as a means of escape.

Charles Shaw: Chasing Amy: Prohibition & the Infantilization Of Addiction Charles Shaw 2011

In time, efforts at self-medication may become a problem greater than the original one, as your direction in life becomes cloudier.

Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011

In The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs, Dr. Julie Holland, a psychatrist and emergency physician, explains that the hiding and lying of illegal and prohibited drug use leads to a pervasive feeling of shame, and that shame creates more of the intensely negative feelings and emotional states that lead to self-medication as a means of escape.

Charles Shaw: Chasing Amy: Prohibition & the Infantilization Of Addiction Charles Shaw 2011

And into counseling or group therapy before her adventures in self-medication ended in razor blades and blood again.

Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011