Had the opportunity to meet Skinner in person at Kephra's funeral in Carmel, IN and he is just as great in-person as he is online. We are fortunate he and the mods built DU for us! Funny, brilliant and honest; it was an honor to meet him. I hope that when we meet again that it will be under better circumastances.
but I do admit to some anger over the glorification of a life style of excess drinking and excess drug use. Social drinking and maybe even a little marijuana is OK ( I don't really know enough about it to say for sure) but Thompson went way beyond that. Maybe it was self medication, but he certainly had access to better solutions. For anyone with mental illness to abuse drugs is like a diabetic cleaning out a candy shop. It's not good for anyone, but for us it can be deadly.
And I don't agree with the idea of "self-medicating" with alcohol and recreational drugs--or glorifying them. I particularly get irritated by those who do so and mock users of prescription drugs as "weak".
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