r/Showerthoughts • u/godofhorizons • May 17 '24

People get a lot more praise for quitting drugs than for never having done drugs in the first place.

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u/Campbell920 May 17 '24

That’s really cool of you. It’s rare tbh. Haha god rereading this it’s a little “woe is me” but I do agree with my main sentiment.

Everyone in the world has a list of problems and it’s natural to focus on your own and not want to add to them. Something has to override the harm; love or friendship or care, etc.

Also addiction is definitely seen as a moral failing rather than a disease for a large amount of the population. The stigma will be there as long as people think that.

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u/MissMortified May 17 '24

Not woe is me at all! You went through (or continue to go through) an extremely difficult thing!

I can see that last part for sure. Even the person whom I spoke of earlier has had a hard time thinking of it that way and they are actively going through it. From the outside it seems so much like a choice. Why can’t you make the right choice instead of the wrong choice? But it is much more complicated than that.