No empathy for people who die of a drug overdose
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JupiterStorm — 18 years ago(April 05, 2008 05:44 PM)
"just greed? Gotcha."
Yup, you read what I said.
Many of those that have done hard drugs, as I say, also have no empathy for those who die of a drug overdose. These are people that fully understand that sought of drug habit. Then there's you. You say otherwise? How'd you know?
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MissJesse85 — 18 years ago(April 05, 2008 10:25 PM)
"Yes, drug addiction can be a serious mental problem, but he was a fool."
okay, but THAT'S the problem. drug addiction IS a mental illness. i've lost many people in my life to drugs. i'm actually finishing up school to become a drug counselor and psychologist. all i can say is that it is a FACT that people who become addicted to drugs and/or alchohol HAVE a) underlying mental illnesses, usb68ually depression 2)use these substances as a way to escape pain within their lives and as a way to self medicate themselves. i have a lot of sympathy AND empathy for people dealing with these problems and my heart goes out to them. i guess that's just me and it's the reason i plan on dedicating my life to help people like farley, for example.
and he wasn't a fool. he had LOTS of issues. i believe they found anti depressant medications in his blood during his autopsy. obviously he was a troubled guy. it's a shame. -
JupiterStorm — 17 years ago(April 08, 2008 07:48 PM)
All of Chris' friends said he was doing it do make it 'more of a bomb' when he died. David Spade, Chevy Chase, etc. They tried to tell him he wasn't John Belushi.
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michaela_myers87 — 17 years ago(May 17, 2008 07:59 AM)
Coming into this late, but I'd just like point out that the fact that you posted this dickish thread is enough of an indication that you have no empathy. You couldn't possibly empathize with someone who's died from a drug overdose reason being you're still alive. In order to empathize, you would have had to OD
I think the word you're looking for is sympathy. You don't yet have the right to say you have no empathy. Your friends, probably, but tough love is what got them out of the mess they were in. Naturally they're going to exercise that on anyone who even remotely fits the profile, because that is how they have been taught to feel in order to get clean.
I would also like to add that most rehab clinics go about treating addiction all wrong. Rather than digging into the mind and finding out why the person feels the need to escape from themselves in the first place, all they say is "stay sober stay sober stay sober." Primary reason rehab doesn't work. I'm not saying all the time, but a great deal of the time. We don't know all of what Chris was dealing with (or course we do have an inkling what with the accounts of his alcoholic father). It's sad that he felt the need to escape in the first place- a real bummer that it killed him.
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tenorthechad — 17 years ago(May 17, 2008 11:16 PM)
You couldn't possibly empathize with someone who's died from a drug overdose
lol I was JUST about to post about this but read your post first. I can't believe this thread got so many replies without anyone realizing this error.
"They say there's no Devil, but right out of Hell I saw it"
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tfarley-1 — 17 years ago(May 19, 2008 08:58 AM)
You must know that your opinion is of little value in today's society. The stigma associated with drug addiction is fast becoming a thing of the past. And those who still adhere to those judgemental and uninformed views (such as yourself) are now being seen and exposed as people whose fact-less statements are without reason, lack intellegence and reflect a inability to interact or communicate at anything but the most sophomoric levels. No one needs or wants your empathy - most people simply desire some basic level of intellect and a demonstration of understanding when they communicate with eachother. Having shown everyone that you lack all of this, I would suggest you keep your 10th grade opinions to yourself.
Thomas J. Farley
President
The Chris Farley Foundation -
kittiemojo — 10 years ago(January 13, 2016 08:38 PM)
Mr Farley thank you for your response to this well I can't come up with anything that could be posted. Your brother was a wonderful comedic actor and it would have been nice to see him break out roles of other genres.no one knows but those close to him knew what he was going thru or thinking. My heart goes out to your family. I'm watching I am Chris Farley right now and seeing a whole other side to him. I was thinking that he and all other great comedians are keeping heaven in laughter. Can you imagine him playing off charlie chaplin. Would be great. Forget about people who can't sympathize with your loss these are the same people who have never been there themselves or for someone close to them to. They are also the ones who have no sympathy for suicides. I lost both brother in laws to suicide, a close friends elderly father too. And at bad time in my life almost went there myself had not been for very sweet coworker that I didn't know well refused to lea1ebcve me alone that nite. He's resting his soul. No pain no drugs just peace. RIP Mr Farleu
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BrohmaBull007 — 17 years ago(May 31, 2008 12:37 PM)
FINALLYI tell my friends this all the time
screw Farleyhe was a potheadand he died because of his mistakes
"Report Abuse" is for quitters!!!
Ed, Edd n Eddy fansite!!
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jar_1992 — 17 years ago(August 03, 2008 09:15 PM)
the people you know got clean but its not that's easy for everyone else,
and to come on this forums and disrespect the legacy of anyone is unmoral.
and have you ever struggled with addiction yourself.
and for you info here Little snippet i pulled off his wiki:
In the years before his death, Farley had attempted to seek treatment for alcohol and drug abuse on seventeen separate occasions, as well as numerous visits to weight reduction treatment centers:
so he did try to overcome his addiction.
so he wasn't some addict who did not try to get clean.but for some the addiction wins the battle
you now what i have no empathy for beep who have nothing better to do with there lives then talk beep about others.
but while everyone else here come to mourn the late Chris Farley.
you come here and be a dickhead .
Christopher Crosby "Chris" Farley (February 15, 1964 December 18, 1997) -
DrMario — 17 years ago(August 22, 2008 10:56 AM)
Well, I do feel sorry for people who die of overdoses, but I have to say, it has to be said that you have to take some responsibility for your substance intake yourself. I have had some (admitedly minor) substance abuse problems myself, so I am not being pious when I say this.
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pink_vitamin_water — 17 years ago(August 25, 2008 10:00 PM)
To have been a drug addict and feel zero sympathy for people that OD is very hypocritical and preposterous. Do any of these smart ones realize that they could have OD'd at any given time in their addiction, and that you don't need to be an addict to OD? That's just silly.
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zestee — 17 years ago(September 25, 2008 12:38 AM)
While it is entirely up to an individual to begin taking drugs in the first place, the number of reasons people begin abusing drugs varies widely. I have two friends who were addicts as children and then teenagers because their parents FORCED them to do dr5b4ugs. Both are clean and healthy now. However, I also have a cousin who has been an addict for over twenty years, has lost pretty much everything, and is now in prison. While it's easy to be angry with him, it's also necessary for my family and I to remind ourselves that his abuse of drugs has caused such dramatic changes in his brain that he is DEPENDENT on the drugs, not just addicted.
This happens to brain chemistry depending on length and severity of use as well as the drugs abused. The brain has to compensate for what it is not getting and actually adapts to the drug, while it continues to destroy other organ systems.
I can't change how you feel, but I do know that I personally do not feel the same way. I don't want to go through anything that anyone goes through on their way to becoming a drug abuser, no matter why they do it.