Addiction isn't mental

I hate it when people make light of mental disorders.  They're not jokes to the people going through them.  All the poor people battling depression can't just cheer up.  All the vets with PTSD or the bipolar folks can't just take their happy pills and live fully productive lives.  It's hard and it will always be hard for them so stop making light of it.

Which brings me to my rant.  Why the fuck do you not think depression is a serious mental illness but you think drug addiction is?  Fuck you.

How dare you make fun of mental illness by using it to excuse your immorality.  Fuck you again.

No.  You don't eat junk food because you can't help it.  You eat junk food because you're too lazy to put in the work it takes to make a healthy meal.  Cuz it does take work and it does mean spending a little extra money and you just don't want to do either. Truth.  You aren't addicted to sugar because you were born that way.  You're addicted to sugar because you won't stop eating it.  You're not fat because you have a disease. Your fat because you don't want to exercise. There's accepting your body then there's ignorance and blaming over eating on a mental disorder is ignorant and a bitch slap to every person suffering from a legitimate illness.

And doing drugs or drinking too much alcohol or gambling are not mental disorders either.  They're moral failings.  People with mental illness don't get a say in the matter.  They don't get a choice.  You had a choice not to take up smoking (because tobacco is a drug) or pick up that crack pipe or get drunk or whatever.  You made the wrong choice but YOU STILL MADE THE CHOICE.

You didn't START doing drugs because you're defective and couldn't help yourself.  You started because you were curious, because you thought it was cool or because your friends did it.  I don't care why you started, YOU MADE THE CHOICE.  And you didn't like those things because you're defective.  You liked them because they're fun.  Because drugs and alcohol make you feel good and gambling is exciting and it's like that for everyone.  Humans like fun things.  They like feeling good.  The only difference between you and everyone else is that they're smarter than you.  They get their feel good vibes from safer places.

You MADE the decision to do drugs or drink too much or play craps or be a slut or whatever.  Because you lacked the common sense and moral values to say no.  Not just after the first taste but before you even did it.

Because drugs and alcohol are designed to get you hooked the first time you use them.  You would have been fine if you never touched them even the once.  And gambling or promiscuity?  No one's addicted to gambling or sex. They like the danger.  You get the same high standing in traffic on the freeway as you do playing 21 or being a whore.  If you're addicted to danger, it's not because you're addicted to the method you choose to feel danger through.  It's because you have a REAL mental disorder.

Probably that depression thing you make fun of.

But don't tell me addiction is a mental disorder.  You can stop an addiction. You can get counseling. You can go through rehab.  You can never do drugs in the first place.  And sex addiction is just a flimsy excuse to get some action.  Point is, you can STOP being an addict.  You can't stop being clinically depressed or bipolar or having PTSD.  You can CHOOSE whether or not you go to a casino or eat another cupcake.  You don't get to choose whether or not you're traumatized by war.

Stop making light of REAL mental health issues by making up fake ones to justify your own stupidity.