L
LoyalViews
Guest
What we always must consider regarding drug addiction is an individual’s place and state in life. Many people try diverse ways to “escape” the reality of the hell they might see themselves living in. Many cannot cope with their situation. They self-medicate. Depression, anxiety, any mental health issue - these can all cause and be the root of addiction.
I know of one case, where a chap I knew had manic depression. He would go out and always do the most ridiculous things. He got hooked on coke this way - it was an emotional addiction, rather than a dependence. He did it for energy, the thrill, and for the way it helped him forget every embarrassment and pain in his life.
It was the worst thing for him to turn to. Perhaps, drug dependencies are a failure on behalf of us, the family and friend to that poor suffering soul.
I pause to think - if he were not manic, if his childhood wasn’t so traumatic - would any of this have occurred? You can never judge a person because of how they live their lives, because you never know what storm is occurring within their soul.
Someone’s need to depend on something outside of God - this IS a choice, but it’s not always necessarily a free-will choice. When addiction sets in, ones culpability falls into question. It is a sickness. I guarantee you that many dying of cancer would also agree.
Addicts suffer. They want to escape. They crave the temporary death and anaesthetic that drugs allow people to experience. Many people fight this. We are not to say what battalion of angels might come to collect their souls on their last day.
The nature of addiction - the reason people choose drugs, whose faith is weak, whose family is often broken to the umpteenth degree… what can we say?
And just like people with cancer are suffering with cancer, they aren’t merely “cancer patients”, nor is the man that undergoes a heart transplant merely a “transplant recipient.” We are all human, equal in frailty and weakness. We ought to be more compassionate to those who cannot see any meaning in life, who choose to be mentally and emotionally absent and distant.
That is a sickness.
OP; you will always worry, but you can rest with assurance that our God is a merciful Father. You can imagine that His judgement is much like yours regarding your sons actions. But, His judgement has one other benefit - yes, the loving bond between parent and child - but His judgement is perfect. He knows why your son did as he did, and He was with your son every minute and second of his life. Can you imagine our Blessed Mother looking on her children and seeing their suffering? The merits of your prayer, your family’s prayer, the prayer of the Blessed Mother who can’t bear to see the redeemed children of God pass through life without knowledge of His constant and abiding love.
Consider all of that. Always keep that holy hope - one day you and your son could be reunited. One day, myself and my grandfather could be reunited - but who knows? I have sinned, he has sinned. You have sinned, we’ve all sinned in uniquely different but similar ways.
I know of one case, where a chap I knew had manic depression. He would go out and always do the most ridiculous things. He got hooked on coke this way - it was an emotional addiction, rather than a dependence. He did it for energy, the thrill, and for the way it helped him forget every embarrassment and pain in his life.
It was the worst thing for him to turn to. Perhaps, drug dependencies are a failure on behalf of us, the family and friend to that poor suffering soul.
I pause to think - if he were not manic, if his childhood wasn’t so traumatic - would any of this have occurred? You can never judge a person because of how they live their lives, because you never know what storm is occurring within their soul.
Someone’s need to depend on something outside of God - this IS a choice, but it’s not always necessarily a free-will choice. When addiction sets in, ones culpability falls into question. It is a sickness. I guarantee you that many dying of cancer would also agree.
Addicts suffer. They want to escape. They crave the temporary death and anaesthetic that drugs allow people to experience. Many people fight this. We are not to say what battalion of angels might come to collect their souls on their last day.
The nature of addiction - the reason people choose drugs, whose faith is weak, whose family is often broken to the umpteenth degree… what can we say?
And just like people with cancer are suffering with cancer, they aren’t merely “cancer patients”, nor is the man that undergoes a heart transplant merely a “transplant recipient.” We are all human, equal in frailty and weakness. We ought to be more compassionate to those who cannot see any meaning in life, who choose to be mentally and emotionally absent and distant.
That is a sickness.
OP; you will always worry, but you can rest with assurance that our God is a merciful Father. You can imagine that His judgement is much like yours regarding your sons actions. But, His judgement has one other benefit - yes, the loving bond between parent and child - but His judgement is perfect. He knows why your son did as he did, and He was with your son every minute and second of his life. Can you imagine our Blessed Mother looking on her children and seeing their suffering? The merits of your prayer, your family’s prayer, the prayer of the Blessed Mother who can’t bear to see the redeemed children of God pass through life without knowledge of His constant and abiding love.
Consider all of that. Always keep that holy hope - one day you and your son could be reunited. One day, myself and my grandfather could be reunited - but who knows? I have sinned, he has sinned. You have sinned, we’ve all sinned in uniquely different but similar ways.
Last edited:
