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tweet by Johann Hari: The core of addiction is not wanting to be present in life, because pour life is too painful a place to be. This is why imposing more pain or punishment on a person with an addiction problem actually makes their addiction worse.
I believe the core of addiction is the culmination of many bad choices and no sense of personal responsibility. It’s something the addict did to themselves. They need to own it and not point fingers or try to justify.
Do people with PTSD who end up self-medicating because they can’t find another thing that helps them need to ‘own it and not point fingers,’ or can the fact that they were in a war or raped regularly by a family member or whatever caused their PTSD be a big part of the issue? Do people with severe mental illness lack personal responsibility? Maybe. But they aren’t going to gain it either what with being severely mentally ill.
You are talking about an extremely extremely small percentage of addicts. The vast majority do not come from any situation you mentioned. I stand by what I said.
Sounds like the opinion of someone looking in from the outside, and not a very compassionate or empathetic one.
Of course it is, and you are 100% correct in saying I have no compassion or empathy for anyone that refuses to take responsibility for themselves. I never will.
I hope something bad happens to you that you have no control over so you can understand how cruel and asinine your take is
I hope that some day you learn how to properly write and punctuate a sentence.
Sick burn bro
Username checks out, to coin a phrase that no one has used before.
Ah yes, the conservative position about literally everything.
That’s a wordy way of saying common sense.