About addiction.....

[Gossipmonster]

I may well get flamed here but anyway.

Feel really pissed off to see the papers and people who I saw as intelligent open minded people (on FB) taking the piss hugely out of the alleged Nigella Lawson "scandal" (or anyone else in the public eye/other alledgedly battling an addiction).

Addiction is a mental illness and it ruins people's lives - it's not something to be sniggered at, made bad jokes about, treated light heartedly or to ridicule people over. It can take years to recover if you are ever lucky enough to achieve that and when you do have anyone left in your life who even cares anymore.

There are many many reasons people fall into addiction, and if the latest revelations are true she has more reasons than most given her history, and it makes me feel very sad.

But maybe I'm just soft .

Yanbu but sadly that won't stop people. I saw someone making crass jokes about that Ian Watkins case

If people have never been close to someone with an addiction or suffered themselves then they just have no idea about it.

Death of a close family member is a massive trigger for a mental illness - not patronising - fact.

Yanbu at all. Addiction is awfull.

I know. Makes me sad the media make a big derisory joke out of it :(

Definitely NBU, my mum suffered a terrible addiction to alcohol for years (is totally sober now and hasn't touched a drop in at least 15 years) and it was a dreadful illness, triggered by PND, that nearly cost her her family, her job and everything that she cared for.

If the revelations about Nigella are true (though I suspect they aren't or at least are wildly over exaggerated) then I feel absolutely awful for her and her children.

Yanbu. I know what addiction feels like. And I have had MH problems closely tied to it. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

People who joke about it should hope they never, ever have to go through it

Yanbu addiction is the worst and destroys so many lives not just the person with the addiction.