Anonymous
Post 10/23/2015 07:40     Subject: Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of addicts suffer from depression or anxiety (or both) brought on by childhood trauma. They use substances like drugs and alcohol to self-medicate. This is a fact.



You can find a sob story in just about anyone's life. ANYONE can be become addicted to addictive substances. Most of us don't dabble in drugs long enough to know which substance is our own Achille's (misspelled sorry) heel. But as a former smoker, myself, I know that addiction is very real and very physical and it happens after you make the conscious choice to expose yourself (repeatedly) to an addictive substance.

Lamar was doing what he was doing - hookers, drugs, drinking - because he was indulging himself in elaborate fashion and it felt good. Someone like Whitney Houston was a full blown addict - the pictures of her hotel bathroom are .


You're seriously delusional and sound completely unhinged. Anyone who loves an addict or works in this arena (check both boxes for me) understands *how and why* addicts become addicts. And it most certainly is not a fun choice as you have asserted. As I was driving my sister to the er the other night as she was going through withdrawal, she looked at me with tears in her eyes and told me that she doesn't want to be "like this" (meaning an addict)...that she didn't choose this...but you would probably discount that given that she partied in high school...20 years ago.

Please step away from this thread...you clearly are clueless.


Uh, the point is that addiction is NO PARTY! That is the point! Addicts wind up like Whitney Houston - it is a sad mess. Nothing fun about NEEDING drugs - google pics of her hotel room. There is nothing FUN about the look of it.

Lamar WAS having fun. He was. If you don't see that than your vision is cloudy. I am sorry about your sister and I hope that she is receptive to getting the help that she needs.


Oy vey, you are crazy!

Lamar was clearly in a downward spiral, looking for a human connection while self-medicating. He wasn't partying in Vegas with buddies. Seriously, you just don't know what you're talking about. Step away from this thread...you are embarrassing yourself.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2015 07:39     Subject: Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
While I am genuinely sad for Lamar Odom, I do think it is wrong that so much media attention is focused on him. Many people are suffering, many people face addiction.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2015 07:35     Subject: Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Fun?? He destroyed his life, his career, his health, his marriage (okay that last one may be a sham, but still...).
It's no longer fun when a person self destructs and chooses drugs over everything else. That's pain, and that's addiction.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2015 07:21     Subject: Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of addicts suffer from depression or anxiety (or both) brought on by childhood trauma. They use substances like drugs and alcohol to self-medicate. This is a fact.



You can find a sob story in just about anyone's life. ANYONE can be become addicted to addictive substances. Most of us don't dabble in drugs long enough to know which substance is our own Achille's (misspelled sorry) heel. But as a former smoker, myself, I know that addiction is very real and very physical and it happens after you make the conscious choice to expose yourself (repeatedly) to an addictive substance.

Lamar was doing what he was doing - hookers, drugs, drinking - because he was indulging himself in elaborate fashion and it felt good. Someone like Whitney Houston was a full blown addict - the pictures of her hotel bathroom are .


You're seriously delusional and sound completely unhinged. Anyone who loves an addict or works in this arena (check both boxes for me) understands *how and why* addicts become addicts. And it most certainly is not a fun choice as you have asserted. As I was driving my sister to the er the other night as she was going through withdrawal, she looked at me with tears in her eyes and told me that she doesn't want to be "like this" (meaning an addict)...that she didn't choose this...but you would probably discount that given that she partied in high school...20 years ago.

Please step away from this thread...you clearly are clueless.


Uh, the point is that addiction is NO PARTY! That is the point! Addicts wind up like Whitney Houston - it is a sad mess. Nothing fun about NEEDING drugs - google pics of her hotel room. There is nothing FUN about the look of it.

Lamar WAS having fun. He was. If you don't see that than your vision is cloudy. I am sorry about your sister and I hope that she is receptive to getting the help that she needs.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2015 07:15     Subject: Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of addicts suffer from depression or anxiety (or both) brought on by childhood trauma. They use substances like drugs and alcohol to self-medicate. This is a fact.



You can find a sob story in just about anyone's life. ANYONE can be become addicted to addictive substances. Most of us don't dabble in drugs long enough to know which substance is our own Achille's (misspelled sorry) heel. But as a former smoker, myself, I know that addiction is very real and very physical and it happens after you make the conscious choice to expose yourself (repeatedly) to an addictive substance.

Lamar was doing what he was doing - hookers, drugs, drinking - because he was indulging himself in elaborate fashion and it felt good. Someone like Whitney Houston was a full blown addict - the pictures of her hotel bathroom are .


You're seriously delusional and sound completely unhinged. Anyone who loves an addict or works in this arena (check both boxes for me) understands *how and why* addicts become addicts. And it most certainly is not a fun choice as you have asserted. As I was driving my sister to the er the other night as she was going through withdrawal, she looked at me with tears in her eyes and told me that she doesn't want to be "like this" (meaning an addict)...that she didn't choose this...but you would probably discount that given that she partied in high school...20 years ago.

Please step away from this thread...you clearly are clueless.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2015 07:00     Subject: Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of addicts suffer from depression or anxiety (or both) brought on by childhood trauma. They use substances like drugs and alcohol to self-medicate. This is a fact.



You can find a sob story in just about anyone's life. ANYONE can be become addicted to addictive substances. Most of us don't dabble in drugs long enough to know which substance is our own Achille's (misspelled sorry) heel. But as a former smoker, myself, I know that addiction is very real and very physical and it happens after you make the conscious choice to expose yourself (repeatedly) to an addictive substance.

Lamar was doing what he was doing - hookers, drugs, drinking - because he was indulging himself in elaborate fashion and it felt good. Someone like Whitney Houston was a full blown addict - the pictures of her hotel bathroom are .


We'll have to agree to disagree. Moving on . . .
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2015 06:46     Subject: Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of addicts suffer from depression or anxiety (or both) brought on by childhood trauma. They use substances like drugs and alcohol to self-medicate. This is a fact.



You can find a sob story in just about anyone's life. ANYONE can be become addicted to addictive substances. Most of us don't dabble in drugs long enough to know which substance is our own Achille's (misspelled sorry) heel. But as a former smoker, myself, I know that addiction is very real and very physical and it happens after you make the conscious choice to expose yourself (repeatedly) to an addictive substance.

Lamar was doing what he was doing - hookers, drugs, drinking - because he was indulging himself in elaborate fashion and it felt good. Someone like Whitney Houston was a full blown addict - the pictures of her hotel bathroom are .
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2015 06:34     Subject: Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
The vast majority of addicts suffer from depression or anxiety (or both) brought on by childhood trauma. They use substances like drugs and alcohol to self-medicate. This is a fact.

Anonymous
Post 10/23/2015 03:33     Subject: Re:Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Addiction to illicit drugs is the result of poor intentional decisions one makes in their life to use in the first place. You don't accidentally use cocaine. Anyone that thinks it's not intentional is deluding themselves. When is the last time you met someone that accidentally snorted coke?


Most young girls or Lgbtq youth who were trafficked or forced into survival sex.


Last I checked Lamar was not involved in the sex trade as a young child. Most victims involved in the sex trade don't use coke, that is for rich people. You are thinking of heroine.


Last I checked it's spelled heroin (and no one from a prior post). Inability to spell words correctly or look them up is an intentional choice. Being an addict isn't.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2015 03:31     Subject: Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Anonymous wrote:
No he just happens to be a nice, kind, piece of shit that throws away everything for the sake of drugs...or was he born an addict?

Noone "just happens" to be an addict. That is a road you go down 100% intentionally. I think it's safe to say that everyone has the common sense to know drug are addictive so unless you are planning on doing them for the rest of your life you might want to have enough willpower to say no.



As just one example, Robert Downey Jr's father used marijuana with him when he was six. Six is too young to make intentional decisions that will scar you or haunt you for the rest of your life. He has said that using drugs with his father was a bonding experience between father and son. Sad.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2015 20:51     Subject: Re:Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Addiction to illicit drugs is the result of poor intentional decisions one makes in their life to use in the first place. You don't accidentally use cocaine. Anyone that thinks it's not intentional is deluding themselves. When is the last time you met someone that accidentally snorted coke?


Most young girls or Lgbtq youth who were trafficked or forced into survival sex.


Last I checked Lamar was not involved in the sex trade as a young child. Most victims involved in the sex trade don't use coke, that is for rich people. You are thinking of heroine.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2015 20:48     Subject: Re:Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Anonymous wrote:Addiction to illicit drugs is the result of poor intentional decisions one makes in their life to use in the first place. You don't accidentally use cocaine. Anyone that thinks it's not intentional is deluding themselves. When is the last time you met someone that accidentally snorted coke?


Most young girls or Lgbtq youth who were trafficked or forced into survival sex.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2015 20:47     Subject: Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Why not put a big price tag on it...like $25 mil? Let's see just how much Lammy is to the Kardashians.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2015 20:45     Subject: Re:Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
Addiction to illicit drugs is the result of poor intentional decisions one makes in their life to use in the first place. You don't accidentally use cocaine. Anyone that thinks it's not intentional is deluding themselves. When is the last time you met someone that accidentally snorted coke?
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2015 20:43     Subject: Re:Lamar Odom fighting for life. Found at Bunny Ranch brothel
"Damnit Nancy! I told you not to put the cocaine jar next to the salt! Now I've gone and gotten myself addicted. Oh well, at least it wasn't intentional I s'pose"