I have some things to say about 3×16 episode of criminal minds, the elephants memory, and the entire storyline of his addiction.
I'm already pissed because when reid was still on dialudid and was clearly struggling and basically begging for help (s2e19 "it would be almost impossible for him to quit without help" he says looking at the team) nobody helped him. They didn't even had to do it officially, they could have just visited him, took care of him when he was throwing up from withdrawal, privately.
When he says "it seemed like everybody just stood there watching you suffer and not a single person even tried to help" he could be talking about his bullying, but most likely because the episode stared with the meeting, he was talking about his problem and that he felt hurt that "not a single person even tried to help".
And the thing is he has been having cravings since that kid died in s3e12. So he is going through withdrawal, remembers a serious trauma from his past therefore relating to the unsub and people are suprised that he is angry??? My breaking point was when hotch said "I'm using you" yeah using his trauma that he is NOT OVER. Sure he tells reid to catch the rest of the movie (meaning to go back to the meeting) but for me that is not enough.
And even in the beginning of the episode when he says he was in the 'movies', everybody just laughed it off (I also wanna go into what derek said "I hope it was a she" but not now). So everybody ignores his problem.
When emily came back to life and he was having his fight with JJ he says "What if I started taking dialudid again, would you have let me?" "You didn't." "Yeah but I thought about it" he was not out of line. The entire thing was threatening the most precious thing that he has, his sobriety. He almost relapsed but again, after the fight the team ignored it.
Back to the episode, at the fight with hotch they are having two seperate conversations. While hotch is arguing about how reid acted when they gave the profile, spencer says "they could have seen the signs" and "they could have done something". He was having an addiction and the team saw the signs (they are plofilers for god's sakes) and they could have acted, but for some reason they didn't. Spencer is pissed, angry, and the bau refuses to see his point of view, and just think that he's cranky, acting crazy, irrational (like with his and JJ's argument)
But I am not objective on the subject so I would like to hear other POV's.
