A monologue on why methamphetamine users often see themselves as damaged goods. The speaker argues addiction is a medical condition, not a moral failing, and that people struggling with it deserve help and the right to speak openly about it.
And I know that one of the core beliefs that I've seen— I talked about this in my books too— is this statement by a lot of meth addicts say, I feel like damaged goods, right? Yeah. When there's so much wrong about me, and there's that kind of very, very low self-esteem, low self-worth. And when we have that low level, it's really hard to empower ourselves to do these things and ask for help even. So I think, um, just all that— there's a kind of a little bit of an attitude shift that, that helps. We have to remind ourselves we deserve help. This is not a moral— an issue of moral value or anything like that. It's a medical concern. And just like for any other medical concern, we would have a right to talk about it in the open, right? And ask for all different kinds of help that might help us depending on where we're at.
