Absolutely. You don’t just wake up and decide to “throw your life away.” Addiction
Absolutely. You don’t just wake up and decide to “throw your life away.” Addiction is a disease with a lot of contributing factors, and to characterize it as his tweet did, and as society at large tends to, is highly reductive, inappropriate, and flat-out incorrect.There’s such mass ignorance surrounding addiction, and so many people are grossly misinformed and cold. Every time someone in the public eye tragically dies from this illness it seems like there are masses of people wanting to make sure that everyone knows that that was THEIR OWN FAULT and that we should NOT mourn them or feel sad over their deaths, and there’s a very strong implication that they deserved to die.And that’s just such shit. It just perpetuates our culture’s ignorance of how addiction actually works. Not to mention, it’s super dehumanizing? It’s like “oh, he was stupid, he threw his life away therefore we are no longer required to empathize and treat him with any ounce of human dignity.” Umm, no. He didn’t throw anything anyway. Addiction is a disease and it’s not one that everyone is able to overcome and could we please just muster up a bit of compassion?It just makes me sick. And Jared has such a platform and SO many people that look up to him that for him to continuously spout off such ignorance is grossly irresponsible. -- source link
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