The Circus Has Come to Recovery Town

✌️✌️✌️The Demi Lovato overdose has really brought out a bunch of “experts” to tell us the ins and outs of addiction. Who are the gatekeepers that arrange this stuff? How do they pick the “expert”… have any of them actually worked with a person with SUD or with families?

It may not matter because the media is looking for a cliche and a sound bite. And those are easy to come up with. The “expert” can deliver that.

But is all this attention and noise thrown Demi Lovato’s way good for her? Or good for society? I guess it’s good for the “experts”.

The Circus Has Come To Town

It a freaking circus. My home page is Yahoo News and here are a couple of stories that popped up over the last few days (I’m paraphrasing)
1) Demi Lovato overdosed because she bought into the “moderation” lie. With some idiot proclaiming with authority the abstinence only dogma. Like they know everything about Demi Lovato and why she overdosed.
2) Demi Lovato overdosed because she “gave up”… well damn…. they seem to have figured that out from some song she recorded about 6 months ago….geniuses.
3) Demi Lovato overdosed because of a “negative body image”…..HOLY MOLY! There must be Jedi therapists out there who can evaluate people from afar and make precision diagnosis.

Y’all depress me. You aren’t experts. You don’t know anything about Demi Lovato. Y’all should turn down the interview. It’s not a sideshow. It’s someone’s life. And it’s damaging to all people seeking recovery.

When a celebrity has a recurrence of cancer is it publicly announced and scrutinized? Do they evaluate “where it went wrong” what the celebrity patient did wrong leading to the recurrence?

This is par for the course for the media. But the “recovery experts” should not contribute. It’s not good. It’s not “awareness”. This is not “advocacy”. It’s a circus.