if you just assume addiction is a method of self-medicating, youâll pretty much never be wrong.
now, not everything people self-medicate for actually has a proper treatment. iâm pretty sure the reason my uncle made sure to be slightly drunk at all times âto round the sharp corners off of thingsâ was sensory processing disorder. i have that too, and i just kind of accept that iâm going to randomly get my brain sandpapered from time to time. there is no medication for that. all you can do is dull your senses. iâve chosen not to, but i canât blame him for his decisions. when a ringing phone feels like getting hit upside the head with a frying pan, liver damage sounds like a fair price to pay.
anyway, it seems really self-evident to me that people donât enjoy living the life of an addict, they do it because the alternative looks worse. people donât get addicted to substances just for funsies. they start making a habit of taking something because of insomnia, or grief, or headaches, or depression, or seething undirected rage and terror they canât put a name to â something that they canât ignore or shrug off. and for whatever reason â lack of access, lack of knowlege, lack of money, or it just plain doesnât exist â they arenât able to apply the Approved Correct Remedy. they use what they can get.
addicts arenât some weird otherfolk who inexplicably just Do Drugs because theyâre Bad. addicts are you with a problem you canât solve.
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