Breaking people is a way to control them. Broken people turn to substances to numb the signal. Why? Because when they act on the signal their emotions are sending them (“something gotta change”) society punishes them. Stay between the lines, work to serve the lie.

The drugs people take to numb the signal all come with their dark side. A balanced and healthy person does not want to repeat the experience of taking the drug in the same way the emotionally broken person does.

Abuse is everywhere, so are drugs. The ratio of abuse/caring you receive sorts of sets your level of brokenness. Abuse is like a magnet screwing with your compass, especially if it is repeated over and over, year after year. caring for you is the repair shop, the compass gets fixed.

Why does abuse seem to get the upper hand on so many people? Because it often destroys the most important form of caring, self caring. Abuse comes in many forms, some obvious, some instead extremely covert, the courage of the sneaky cowards. And when abuse comes from where there was supposed to be caring, the ratio really takes a beating.