Protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal lasts YEARS. Not a few weeks or a month or two like opiate withdrawal. Years. Nobody should ever have to go through that.
Now, he is also feigning ignorance about the dangers of benzodiazepine addiction instead of dealing with it head on and saying “I was an addict.” Because he most certainly was.
Unfortunately he is trying to play some kind of victim card. Instead of taking responsibility for his own actions and “cleaning his room.”
I lost a lot of respect for this man with the way he has handled this situation. He has done the opposite of what he preaches about.
He is preaching ideals. The preaching and the preacher are still worth their words wether or not they live up to them. It’s the nature of what they do. They speak what we need to hear. He did not get so popular because he always did what he said, rather because so many needed to hear what he said.
Maybe we should separate who he is now from before due to potentially permanent chemical changes to his brain.
Maybe he does not currently see what he needs to do, or he is still addicted to some extent at least (maybe even still using). Maybe he just learned or is still learning how to understand this. Perhaps one day he will be able to look back and clearly see things the way you do from the outside with your convenient perspective.
I could just defending him because I still benefit from his speeches to this day and know others have too. Maybe i’m not taking away enough credit from him because I feel it’s not justified after all he has done for so many including myself.
Protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal lasts YEARS. Not a few weeks or a month or two like opiate withdrawal. Years. Nobody should ever have to go through that.
Now, he is also feigning ignorance about the dangers of benzodiazepine addiction instead of dealing with it head on and saying “I was an addict.” Because he most certainly was.
Unfortunately he is trying to play some kind of victim card. Instead of taking responsibility for his own actions and “cleaning his room.”
I lost a lot of respect for this man with the way he has handled this situation. He has done the opposite of what he preaches about.
He is preaching ideals. The preaching and the preacher are still worth their words wether or not they live up to them. It’s the nature of what they do. They speak what we need to hear. He did not get so popular because he always did what he said, rather because so many needed to hear what he said.
Maybe we should separate who he is now from before due to potentially permanent chemical changes to his brain.
Maybe he does not currently see what he needs to do, or he is still addicted to some extent at least (maybe even still using). Maybe he just learned or is still learning how to understand this. Perhaps one day he will be able to look back and clearly see things the way you do from the outside with your convenient perspective.
I could just defending him because I still benefit from his speeches to this day and know others have too. Maybe i’m not taking away enough credit from him because I feel it’s not justified after all he has done for so many including myself.