R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman
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- d_rek0
So when you say "They made a choice to do such and such.."
Yes, that's true. There is always a choice to be made. But for individuals with psychiatric disorders they just don't view their choices in the same light as people who don't have those issues.
So when you say "He should have made the choice not to use heroin because of his family and such and such..."
Well for him it may not have been much of a choice at all. A depressed individual might have an extremely lowered sense of self-worth. He might have convinced himself that using heroin again - despite knowing the consequences - was easier than not. It would 'take the pain away'. That other people in his life would be better off without him. That they would just forget about him and move on with there life.
It's very difficult to understand this type of thinking for people who have never been addicted, depressed, or intimately acquainted with someone who has been.