Let’s stop pretending addiction is mysterious. It isn’t. Some people are born into it, marinated in chaos before they ever take a breath. That’s a medical reality, not a moral one. Others aren’t born there and still choose it anyway. That’s where excuses end and accountability starts. In the streets leaning, selling, running—pick your lane. They all end the same if nothing changes: loss, prison, or a body bag.
Trauma is real. Using it as a permanent hall pass to destroy yourself isn’t. Heal. Actually heal. Not the performative “I’m trying” nonsense while you keep dialing the same dealer and calling it coping. Nothing about numbing yourself to death is growth. It’s avoidance with a receipt.
This episode also drags confidence into the light. Confidence isn’t optional. It’s faith in yourself or the loud absence of it. If you can’t trust yourself, can’t stand on your own spine, and need constant external crutches to function, then you’re not lost. You’re simply refusing responsibility. That refusal ripples. It wrecks your work, your relationships, and your contribution to the world. Nobody owes you a life raft while you’re actively drilling holes in the boat.
The final minutes pull directly from my book, referenced in “Worry-Free Is Me,” because the message applies here too: stop outsourcing your power. Get help that actually helps. Rehab, structure, distance from the bullshit. Not another alley, not another excuse, not another night you won’t remember.
Get your ass off the street or the couch and into recovery. Nobody’s impressed. And nobody’s coming to save you but you.
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