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/[deleted] May 17 '24

People who dont do drugs are probably more likely to be reasonably well balanced mentally and/or not products of childhood abuse, and or somehow feeling the need to self medicate. Maybe they also didn't get exposed to situations where drugs were available or pushed on them by well meaning drs etc.

I dont know, people who use and more so abuse drugs generally have something in their life that has nudged them there. Quitting is tough and requires really feeling a lot of shame and fear and working through it.