Inspired by the insight provided by these text messages, here is the last month's worth of conversations I have had with my weed dealer:

A lot of people seem stuck on this idea of "choosing" addiction, like people sit down and say to themselves "I'm going to take this substance I know is bad and keep at it until I'm a shell of a person who, at best, may eventually get treated and recover from this for the rest of my life". That's...not real common.…

"The mentally ill hobo meth-head in the bad side of town who fell through the cracks of the system" is exactly why people like you should probably STFU. Not that you don't have every right to say what you want to say. But give me a fucking break. If someone can't have equal empathy for a widely lauded actor that…

Is is fucking "100% preventable and curable" like mental illness is!?! What the actual fuck is with this mentality?!

Wow, that is so fucking condescending.

I hope if ever you're in need of help, the people around you are more compassionate than you are.

I hope if ever you challenge someone on things they're saying that are deeply offensive to you, the person doesn't treat you and your deceased loved ones and your continued pain so…

Anyone who thinks the disease of addiction is "100% preventable and curable" is very misled.

Am I telling you how to feel about your experience? No. I'm just telling you to stop telling me how to feel about mine. Because it's not stupid. And you don't get to make that call for Philip Seymour Hoffman or anyone else on these comment threads.

If you have a personal experience with it, you feel free to think that…

You really don't understand the psychology of addiction. It's like saying "Who forced depressed people to be depressed? Just smile and think happy thoughts! I'm sure it'll work out!" Yeah, perhaps you should understand that addiction is typically a comorbid disease, meaning people get addicted to cure/numb some other…

My God, the ignorance and casual cruelty from the people on this post even in the face of people who have lost loved ones to heroin. It's astounding in the worst way.

So you're telling me that my big brother's death wasn't a tragedy because he, as a mentally ill teenaged boy, should have known better than to try drugs to cope with his pain?

I am an ex-junkie. I have been very lucky to stay off of it for most of my adult life, thanks to day-to-day persistence and work as well as love and support from people I know, whether they know the effect of it or not.

I have enough to live for now that I MUST love myself and others enough to stay clean.

Many people…

Fuck anyone who thinks they get to shame people for finding one thing sad without namechecking literally every other sad thing, world without end, amen.

My sister wasn't able to conquer her addictions either. But I wouldn't call her "stupid." I'd call her beautiful, artistic, kind, funny, deeply troubled, incredibly sad, and gone tragically early.

Do NOT google image search "sea penis."

'Murica

What's the message? Drinking Bud will help you fuck the lady who runs the puppy mill next door?

"Those guys are experiencing weather that isn't normal for their geographic location! Their infrastructure isn't prepared for this, because it's never made sense for them to prepare for it! IDIOTS! LOLOLOL"

If you aren't here and have never experienced "snow" in a state like Georgia, I can understand your confusion. Everything that hit pretty much turned immediately to ice; it wasn't nice, soft, fluffy snow. Every road surface turned into a skating rink. It hit late in the morning, after everyone was at work. Because…

The second dunk was a gimme. A Hyman never repairs once it has been broken.