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1. March 28th, 2019 at 1:06 pm
   Lexxvs says:

   I remember commenting about this guy way before the hard events mentioned there (his divorce and his mother’s death) when he commented some grim mental health issues.

   Thus, when I read things like this: “Now healthy, happy, and six months sober”, I am prudently skeptical AGAIN, knowing such problems (the mental ones and ADDICTIONS) are extremely hard to treat and, if there is a recovery, there is quite a work to do in the follow up. So you have to take these marketing statements with caution and always pay attention to the afterwards. How many famous people have been seen making the “recovered and happy” parade after rehab, while falling deeper afterwards, along the years? Some of them even seemed to give lectures or how it is done while they were falling for the old problems.

   Yes, I know there is a marketing strategy in place and that (non obsessive) work is part of a healthy recovery, but the damaging part is (for me) the floating notion that this issues are fixed like a bad cold, that being a victim makes you a hero (sometimes showcase problems that need treatment and humility rather than admiration), that public confession is sanative (it is not, especially when something that is too recent and you could get easily hurt) etcetera. He deserves to work; the magazine should be less obvious about those disingenuous too optimistic words.

   Again (as I did before) I wish him luck, but especially the best of treatment and the BEST of friends and loved ones who really love him (and if possible, those who are healthy or healthier, as some problems are disguised by mingling with people who have similar issues).