The Toxicity of Should: What Drives Some Sober People Back to Using

On the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Robin Williams, I am reposting an article I’d previously written about Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and could probably have updated when Carrie Fisher died. That said, this is not about celebrities dying. It about what we can learn about addiction through the lens of people we thought had everything. Any sober person can tell you how frustrating it is to convey to a “normie” what getting high means to an addict. And the keyword here is “means.” For an addict, the emotional experience is quite powerful that you are somehow doing something with actual spiritual importance, even if you understand intellectually you are merely flooding your dopamine receptors. Certainly you find it amusing that people shake their head at the “insanity” of using. You use. You experience a sense of euphoria. You want to do it again. What’s insane about that? <a href="https://markolmsted.medium.com/the-toxicity-of-should-what-drives-some-sober-people-back-to-using-5535ca49d90f">Read More</a>