Drug addicts also suffer.
But not only do they pass it badly, but also alcoholics, those who play slot machines, addicts to work, and in general all those who have some addiction go wrong, although many people criticize them, they despise them. It seems that since ancient times society has put aside or has marginalized those who have some illness or suffer from any type of disorder. In the days of Jesus, he separated the people who had leprosy, were separated from the towns, reduced in a small area of land and left by the hand of God.
Nobody was taking care of them because the illness could be contracted, but the most painful was their solitude and the accusation that they were made of sinners, for having distorted some religious command. Today we have a tendency to laugh at situations or norms that people lived a few years ago, it seems we have already overcome it but it turns out that we still ignore this today, despite not being the same way as people who Has a disease or has a difficult situation and do not say if they have an addiction seen as very negative. Then we try to "do not pollute ourselves" and remain pure, and often make them feel guilty of what happens to them. If they drink it is because they are people with little will or who do not know how to deal with the problems, or with little internal consistency. And if you spend the week in the game we look at you as unfair and unfriendly people with the family.
The addictions can not be defended as such, nor can they be seen as something that is harmless, nor is it an addiction to work but must be put on the skin of the people who live them, and these do have to be accepted and respected. They can not deny that they suffer despite the fact that they can show that nothing happens to them. They have lost a part of their freedom or decision-making capacity in the face of some situation that exceeds them. They even have lost confidence in themselves. And many of these situations are of deep psychological order that the same people may not know. We must help them without being let down by their addiction or protect them as if they were small children. They can react if they have help, they can fight if they feel supported but we must understand that their path is not easy. Nor is that of the people who are at his side who will have to be protected from the exits of addiction and the off-site demands they receive and that can destroy or curb their lives.
Eduard Fonts, psychologist.