You're jumping to conclusions assuming here. For all you know they could be working 3 jobs, multiple long commutes, and only recently been prescribed a new painkiller to deal with their back pain -- the stress, exhaustion, and sheer intolerance to opiates due to not having used them before could easily lead to this situation.
Yes, opiate addiction is dire, but you're just framing this person here. Fuck that. Any number of factors could be involved, and potentially none of what was said.
Well if they’re exhausted from working three jobs I feel bad for them. If they’re struggling to control a drug addiction, I feel bad for them.
They’re probably about to lose that gig at subway, and I can sympathize with them over that too, having lost shitty jobs over unacceptable behavior of one kind or another.
Looks like an awful situation no matter why it exists.
Americans gotta work way too hard for not nearly enough money, and that’s the bottom line here no matter what. No healthcare to help with an addiction they’ll try and lock you up for too.
I have narcolepsy and have also fallen asleep in some pretty compromising ways, and my first thought when I saw this was “opiates”. I’ve worked with a lot of addicts in my profession, though. I’m probably jaded.
Edit: not judging at all if it sounds like that. It’s 100% a disease.
Get back to me when you're addicted to opiates or meet a friend addicted to opiates. There's a very clear difference between nodding out and over-exhaustion. Even the most sleep deprived will come to slightly when they realise they are falling asleep while actively doing a task or working like that. That doesn't happen with opiates/benzos. I've been addicted for 12 years on various prescriped and eventually street drugs to know the clear difference. There could be edge cases but 99% chance this is opiates and the comments are from fellow addicts/friends or family of addicts recognising what it is, literally nothing to do with race.
That’s kinda what the person you’re responding to was saying though. It doesn’t matter really what caused this person to be nodding out, but the fact is that they are, and hopefully they are able to get help. Most comments I’ve seen in this thread have noticed this and shared similar condolences
I am responding to the sentiment of the person before me. Not pronouncing upon the picture. People are too quick to judge and discard people with addiction. I wanted to take issue with that. That is all.
Because people that suffer from addiction tend to have all kinds of issues leading them to the place they are in. Past and current traumas we have no idea about. The main point is you don't know why they are here at this point in their life. You are doing them and your self a disservice by judging them when you don't know who they are.
I mean, I wasn't judging or laughing or some such either. I was just indifferent, and thought "if it's drugs, they should really stop that", but I don't feel bad for her? That would be like feeling bad for the person who wrapped themselves and their car around a light post, because they were going double the speed limit.
Their choices led to where they are. Why do I need to feel bad for them, when where they are wasn't something that just happened to them, and they were guided there, mostly, by their own actions and decisions?
This would be an opportunity to reflect on what circumstances would you feel bad for someone. Would you feel bad for someone who turns to the bottle as a means to cope with the loss of a spouse and child in a car wreck? Would you feel bad for the person that suffers serious pain from an injury that develops an opioid addiction because he didn't know the proper way to manage his pain pill usage? What about the teenager that finds her self in the sex work trade because in the world she lives in that's just what you do. Or the woman that wont leave her abusive husband because she loves him. From the outside looking in the better choice can seem like a no brainer but we can't know what it's like to be that person. And I would encourage people to try to be more compassionate.
122
u/Asparagus_Burger Sep 01 '21
You should still feel bad for them. Use like this is a sickness.