Nearly three years ago, in August 2023, I lost my boyfriend and partner to a drug overdose. He wasn't simply someone I dated he was someone I loved deeply and shared my life with. He loved his friends, loved going out and having fun, and had a way of making everyone around him smile. He was passionate about being a hairstylist, graduated from cosmetology school, and had found something he genuinely loved doing. When I remember him, those are the things I want to remember not addiction and not the way his life ended. His struggles were part of his story, but they were never the whole story.Losing him completely changed the way I see addiction. I understand now how easily we reduce people to words like "addict" or another overdose statistic while forgetting the human being behind them. Behind those numbers are partners, friends, careers, dreams, laughter, struggles, and people who love them. I've found myself relating to parts of Hayden Panettiere's public experiences with addiction and loss, despite our circumstances being very different. His death inspired me to support organizations dedicated to addiction awareness, treatment, prevention, and recovery. I can't change what happened in August 2023, but I can make sure the way he died never becomes more important than the way he lived. If losing him taught me anything, it's that addiction deserves understanding, those struggling with it deserve compassion, and every person lost to it was so much more than their addiction.
>>541085805bro just like, stop doing it. duh
>>541085805Nice prompt, you know the rules.
>>541085805I think your problems stem more from your need to take strange diseased cock without condoms on a regular basis.
Bump for the tranny…
>>541085882simple as
>>541085805I’m getting a little too turned on picturing you two faggots smiling at each other and running your hands through each other’s wavy hair. So hot.
>>541085805how many guys have you fucked since you made your faggot boyfriend kill himself?
Stay strong homo.Seriously, nobody deserves that kind of loss. Half of the people I know have died from Drugs/Alcohol or suicide. It's really fucked up. Many have never been through the throes of addiction and pain from those kind of losses. They'd rather larp about being a tough guy when they're closet alcoholics.Brave of you to stay humble and understanding from the loss. Don't expect most on here to understand addiction, SSRI, depression, anxiety or anything else. Compassion is what the world needs, measured compassion.
>>541085805Lucky guy, I have been actively trying to die in a non obvious way for years. I skied off a 120' cliff last winter and landed between 2 massive boulders. The odds of that are miniscule. I just survived a deer strike on my motorcycle, I actually accelerated to hit it harder. I bet if I hanged myself with a boat anchor rope it would break just to keep me here suffering
>>541085805I've watched my little brother throw away the last ten plus years of his life. It's infinitely frustrating to observe. I have compassion for him, but he refused treatment and lies about everything. I have my own family now, and brother or not, it's hard to endure that tough of a hang, even when he does bother to show up. I don't want to lie to myself and everyone in the room by pretending it's all good, when we all know it's not. It gets old. The guy I knew died a long time ago. I don't want to extinguish his potential to reclaim himself, but I can't waste any more time trying to force it either.
Wow that sucks, really sad... can I have the rest of the drugs?
>>541086614learn from your jeet masters the destructive power of the train
>>541085805you could have saved him. you let him die. its all your fault. you failed. you killed him
>>541085805Unless you have a Pulitzer Prize, I’m not reading all that.
Most overdoses are due to changing tolerance levels in the user. They didn't just go hog wild and massively dose, quite the opposite. A user who quits for long periods of time is most susceptible to OD'ing.
>>541088707I always hated people that interfere with the daily commute.
