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wilderthanmild posted:The one thing that drives me crazy in intervention is how many of them claim some kind of abuse/trauma history caused their addiction. While I feel that it often might be true for many of them, I am pretty sure lots of them just do not want to accept personal responsibility for it. I guess "I use because x!" sounds better than "I started doing heroin and hosed up and ended up doing it way too much!". See to me it's just the opposite. I was deliberately looking for the most contemptible person I could find on that show and I settled on the 23-year-old bank teller who is the world's most pathetic belligerent drunk. I picked this guy specifically because I hated his stupid voice and face and basically all his other qualities that were evident at a glance but I still couldn't feel anything but pity for him after it came out that he was raised by an alcoholic, coke-dealing single mom who thought it was hilarious to see an 8 year old eat an entire blunt roach. Whether or not people say they accept personal responsibility, it seems clear that most of them are living in exactly the way that their upbringing and circumstances pushed them to.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yeah there's a lot of that on the show. It's not like those people are capable of holding jobs, so I get why the parents do it, but it's the worst possible thing you can do. Oh dude it can get so much worse than that. Have you noticed that these shows are almost always about middle-class addicts with supportive families? ("I see a whole lotta people that love you like crazy, and just want you to get better...") And they almost always push the addict into treatment by threatening to take that support away. Have you ever met a homeless drug addict, someone without any of that? They just slip straight through the cracks. They don't get a 45-minute TV special with engineered catharsis at the end. Generally they just hit rock bottom and stay there. It's the saddest poo poo on earth
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swamp waste posted:Oh dude it can get so much worse than that. Have you noticed that these shows are almost always about middle-class addicts with supportive families? ("I see a whole lotta people that love you like crazy, and just want you to get better...") And they almost always push the addict into treatment by threatening to take that support away. Well duh! They even said in that interview that someone linked to earlier that they evaluate candidates for the show based on loss potential. the intervention is all about getting leverage over an addict which is why 99% of them eventually break down and go to treatment. if they tried it on an addict who wasnt getting by by siphoning off their family, they lose their leverage and their chance to film crying and drama. They experimented a few times. Laney's a good example. They finally got her to treatment only for her to leave after one day, take a limo back home, and ironically the driver was a sober coach who helped her sober up. Then Marquel came along and totally short circuited the show's formula and now they play it safe by choosing people who really can't say no Cracked_Gear fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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XmasGiftFromWife posted:That kid was destroyed in the whomb. That picture is textbook fas I thought you were joking but...   Maybe life wasn't so perfect for Jeff and Ronda.
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drat, that's spot on
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scott walker had a really lovely childhood haircut huh
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Well this is interesting. Here are the childhood photos of Jeff. The interviews about his childhood all talk about how sensitive and withdrawn he was. He's described as abnormally shy at school. He didn't want to be around other people.     Not as cut and dry, but drat .
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My favorite part of the show is when it starts out with "When she was just a baby"... Like... you have to go back that far before you remember them getting high all the time.
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Frosted Flake posted:I thought you were joking but... holy poo poo
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I guess the hoarders on right now netflix is a "best of"? I just watched one where someone's dad was a literal loving former SS nazi who ate his pet rabbit and was literally grooming him to be the next Hitler (luckily he ended up being a chill hippy type dude). The shrinks talk to him about "what would your father think about this mess" and "your father would be proud now!" and it's like holy poo poo you should not do anything that makes a loving nazi proud JC Also the editing\music becomes insanely brutally terrible in this ep or the one before it
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Taste the Rainbugh posted:We already talked about the 12 hour masterbater fuuuuuck 
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Show returns March 22nd, so set your DVRs for hilarity
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