Self Medication

Who decided that self-medication was ‘evil’?

I think some forms of self-medication is excessive, and others an absolute necessity to move forward in a ‘world’ that simply doesn’t understand people like me. I use to ‘self medicate’ with alcohol, and it was no different to taking sleeping pills … or having a nice hot shower, or taking a dump after desperately rushing home before an accident scars your pants.

Whether I drank or not, my problems were still there the next day. I understood and acknowledged that. But for that brief moment in my useless life, I would forget. I have never claimed that drinking will make my problems disappear? But it eases the ugliness of the day.

Drinkers however should live in caves because no one really likes them.

My cave would be decorated, facing the sunset and modestly furnished. A camp fire and a little fridge, that’s all.

I would ritualistically write down my problems onto a piece of paper and toss it into the fire. What a marvelous sight that would be!