Don’t go crazy
February 20, 2008Feel free to become a substance abuser, though. In fact, if you are an adult with serious psychiatric problems, do the best you can to become addicted to something as soon as possible: crack, meth, heroin, anything… because there are five million treatment centers for adult junkies (or “recreational drug users” – how jolly) but not one damn place except the warehouse of a state hospital for a suicidal thirty-five-year-old man who is not actually pointing a loaded gun at his head at five-minute intervals.
There will come a day when people will see emotional disorders as the diseases that they are, and they will be treated like diseases, cared for like diseases, and money poured into research to fight them.
But it won’t be soon.
I’m sorry.