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I just watched this and was coming to share it.
To those of you who haven’t and wondered “how could he let all that talent go to waste?”, and have never battled addiction, I implore you to take 13 minutes and watch. Amazing insight. And if he’s honest with himself and not doing this for show (I believe he’s being honest), he may yet have a chance to actually live his life, be a father, and find real happiness, not the synthetic kind.
Thanks you for sharing that, Josh. I hope you get another chance…for yourself, not us. Though we could really use you right about now…
Haven’t watched it yet but read an article from pft on it….
I have said it all along, I feel for the guy. I have had family members with alcohol problems and even myself at times. It is so easy just to buy a drink or smoke a Doogie…. Because why not. No reason… Everything works out right…. Well this is an example of how addiction works.
Hue Jackson is a loser.
Haven’t watched it yet but read an article from pft on it….
I have said it all along, I feel for the guy. I have had family members with alcohol problems and even myself at times. It is so easy just to buy a drink or smoke a Doogie…. Because why not. No reason… Everything works out right…. Well this is an example of how addiction works.It’s more of an example that you cannot help an addict until they hit their version of rock bottom and want the help.
That’s the biggest key people fail to understand with addiction. Can’t help them until they ask for it
Freedom!!!
The problem though soup is, that the addict doesn’t always know what rock bottom is and even more so, the enablers don’t think they are hurting the situation.
I have watches a ton of intervention and you would be amazed what rock bottom is verses what is acceptable.
Hue Jackson is a loser.
The problem though soup is, that the addict doesn’t always know what rock bottom is and even more so, the enablers don’t think they are hurting the situation.
I have watches a ton of intervention and you would be amazed what rock bottom is verses what is acceptable.That’s why it’s their version of rock bottom. A recovery addict told me this once. On top of which my son we adopted was born addicted. Losing 2 kids with all the resources and offerings of help wasn’t enough for the biological mother because she wanted the rehab spot to “go to someone who really needed it.”
Freedom!!!
Well said, Soup.
It’s easy for those who never dealt with addiction to pass judgement on an individual’s engagements with substance abuse and generically lump them into “the dopehead” pile, what that person likely doesn’t realize is that the struggle to overcome the addiction can be one of the, if not THE most difficult thing that said person can face in their entire life. Because most addiction hits you from SO MANY angles…physically, psychologically, socially…it takes everything in a person to give something up. And even more to stay that way.
According to Josh, the factors that had people were wondering why he would risk everything to get high were the same things that enabled him to begin with…the fact that he felt his rock bottom while wandering from person to person in Gainesville and asks himself “what the fuck am I doing here?”…something got through to him, and getting the shit scared out of him certainly caused him to reflect on what he truly WAS doing there.
Granted, what worked for him may not work for others, because addiction is funny like that. Everyone has motivating factors, and a lot of times people don’t even know what they are. Like Soup said, you have to be willing to quit before you can take that true first step…but to get there, those motivating factors have to become more important than the buzz.
I hope the kid overcomes it.
I hope he gets his life right. Sounds like he is. I’ll save my pity for people struggling with abuse that haven’t been given the golden ticket in life. I pity the people who haven’t been given a choice, like children of addicted parents who suffer because their parents prioritize their addiction over their children. Then I’ll pity the people who got addicted trying to hide from catastrophe in their life, like soldiers returning from Vietnam after seeing their friends blown to pieces. Then I’ll pity people who made one bad choice early in life, like a kid who goes to a party in college and ends up destroying his life because of it. If I have any pity left, then I’ll pity the people who have been given more than everyone else and have been coddled and enabled, like Josh Gordon and Johnny Manziel.
I hope that coach that helped him dodge the tests gets prison, and I hope that he knows that he was helping someone to destroy their life in exchange for a couple college football wins. I hope that ANYONE that enables an addict realizes that they are doing as much to hurt them as the drug dealer does.
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