how does seeking help to overcome a drug addiction courageous? Please help!?
This is an essay topic. I defined courageous as admitting your wrong and asking for help. I wrote on my essay, that getting over an addiction is courageous because the drug addict must realize they need help and confront his / her problems. That they seek for help and acknowledge they need istance. My professor;however, thinks that this reason is not enough and wants me to go beyond the obvious. I really can not think of anymore reasons. help?! Thankss- An argument could be made that it is no more courageous, objectively, to overcome addiction as it was cowardly to become an addict in the first place. But In the real world: VERY COURAGEOUS Its not courageous to admit your wrong its rational. BEING NORMAL is not COURAGEOUS. Courage is making an OUTRAGEOUS EFFORT. Actually trying to put their screwed up addict life back together is the courageous part. Addicts have usually Fudged over everyone they know at least 77 time 7 times. Hundreds of arrests. Ill Health that would make a zombie blush. Sometimes just trying to get their families to talk to them is impossible. Sounds like you are learning about addiction from a book. try A&E? Get some case history's. call a hospital, go to a NARCANON meeting. We are talking suffering and mistakes of biblical proporrtions here. To even begin to face those kinds of problems in the real world, I am guessing would take tremendous courage. :
- People take drugs to escape harsh realities they can not face, like their own shortcomings, a dismal future, family problems, financial, work, ect. It is much more courageous to try to overcome these situations through hard work, and being honest with yourself, than sticking a needle in your arm
- its courageous because the addict needs to not only face the fact that they have done wrong, but face losing the "good" feeling tey get from the drug, and also go back to facing the pain they had to deal with that forced them to take the drug they took in the first place. the other people that answered i ume never had to deal with it personally. i lost my father to it and im probably losing friends to alcoholism, so i think i know what im talking about, plus I am in the process of quitting drinking. just because someone starts taking a drug doesnt make them a bad person. people that do drugs or drink in excess realize that whatever they're doing takes away some pain, yea there are side effects, but to get away from whatever pain they were experiencing before they do not really care. so yes, you are right in sayin gits courageous, and i hope my reasons helped you out and gave insight to you and others. by the way. i am in no way saying that someone should start doing any of that, because it is mostly worse then whatever pain that person has felt before
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