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No argument here..
Everyone likes a good rush, it makes them feel ALIVE. Look at the car racers...they live to feel the speed..and they need it right to the end..to their death sometimes..do we tell them they are sick and need to get help or have the government intervene because they choose to race and thwart death every time they get into a race car for a rush? Thats almost like committing suicide on a russian roullete game...
My opinion from experience is this need pertains to all addictions....we have become a society of instant gratifications...and when it fails to thrill us anymore we move on to bigger and more thrilling things..until we lose sight of ourselves and hurt the ones we love. No government can fix that...
So before you go off high and mighty on addictions, I am very well aware of them..please ask before you condemn...
So, the point I was trying to make is...addicts of every walk of life, will not get help until they feel the need to themselves..no amount of programs out there is going to help 1 person if they don't WANT the help..
You sit there and assume I don't know what I am speaking of..sorry to burst your bubble but my father was a gambler, and so IS my little brother who also lost everything..and yes, we lost our home, land, and everything of value through his addiction..I lived it....I am sorry i dont wish to start an argument but this is just how little people actually kow about such addictions
Why stop at only those addictions? And then what, we ALL have some kind of ADDICTION that affects others throughout life..shoe fetishes, bingo holics, shopaholics, chargeaholics, foodaholics, binge purgers, hair pullers, nail biters, tattoo addictions, cosmetic surgery addictions, sex addicts, internet porn addicts.....etc and I could go on and on..when do we say as a country..take responsibility for your choices of addictions, take responsibility and get the help you need or do we lock them all up? We wouldn't have anyone out there to run the programs that are needed then for these addictions, for the ones that are supposed to help us have addictions too....If it was as easy as you say just to "fix" this then the world would be so god damn easy for everyone. tobacco, alcohol, drugs would not be an problem for anyone and lives would not be ruined by such addictions
Everyone likes a good rush, it makes them feel ALIVE. Look at the car racers...they live to feel the speed..and they need it right to the end..to their death sometimes..do we tell them they are sick and need to get help or have the government intervene because they choose to race and thwart death every time they get into a race car for a rush? Thats almost like committing suicide on a russian roullete game...
You really do have it bad..nowhere have I mocked anyone...being in the position of having lived through a mother instituted in a mental home because of my fathers actions throughout my childhood for manic depression..I would be the last one to mock any REAL illness..addiction is not an illness in my opinion. it is a prolonged habit that manifests itself into something that grows beyond a persons caring or feeling due to becoming desensitized more and more to the feel they need and a need for a greater rush versus losing the feeling of caring about another persons well being..just as my father didn't care about losing everything he owned in life to get his rush, including my mother...because he had a need he wanted filled and no matter what and he had the same choices to get help too if he WANTED to and he refused to take them!So please stop this ignorance and try to help rather than mock these people.
My opinion from experience is this need pertains to all addictions....we have become a society of instant gratifications...and when it fails to thrill us anymore we move on to bigger and more thrilling things..until we lose sight of ourselves and hurt the ones we love. No government can fix that...
So before you go off high and mighty on addictions, I am very well aware of them..please ask before you condemn...
To appease their conscience knowing what kind of society we have become..Again to the post above if this was all so easy just to give up then why do governemnts spend millions of s per year putting help measures in place
So, the point I was trying to make is...addicts of every walk of life, will not get help until they feel the need to themselves..no amount of programs out there is going to help 1 person if they don't WANT the help..