JessFR
Bluelight Crew
Yep, I fit somewhat into your theory.
I don't know exactly when my interest in drugs started, I was definitely very young, 13-14 maybe. And it's been that way ever since.
I had very bad depression for most of my life, I'm told I was about 8 when I started openly wishing I was dead. I was abused as a little girl and suffered from depression, PTSD, and anxiety stemming from it from my preteens to maybe 19ish. Never got much professional help for it until my early 20s. The PTSD symptoms used to be really bad, but since about 20, Around 8 or so years after the abuse stopped, my symptoms started slowly getting better. I got help for my depression after trying to kill myself nearly 5 years ago. It's not cured but it's manageable. Like most people I started with weed and other drugs considered fairly mild and worked my way up to a serious heroin/opioid problem. While I can't deny I love getting high, not on opioids exclusively either. But it's my opioid use that doubles as a form of self medication for me. It's the most effective way in the short term to feel 'good'. My drug addiction has lead to its own set of problems with my mother, boyfriends, relationships generally, not to mention financially and immoral things I've done for drug money.
So for me it's both, to kill pain and for recreation.
I'm not surprised you've noticed this trend. You need only look at the statistics for rehab patients to see it's linked.
I don't know exactly when my interest in drugs started, I was definitely very young, 13-14 maybe. And it's been that way ever since.
I had very bad depression for most of my life, I'm told I was about 8 when I started openly wishing I was dead. I was abused as a little girl and suffered from depression, PTSD, and anxiety stemming from it from my preteens to maybe 19ish. Never got much professional help for it until my early 20s. The PTSD symptoms used to be really bad, but since about 20, Around 8 or so years after the abuse stopped, my symptoms started slowly getting better. I got help for my depression after trying to kill myself nearly 5 years ago. It's not cured but it's manageable. Like most people I started with weed and other drugs considered fairly mild and worked my way up to a serious heroin/opioid problem. While I can't deny I love getting high, not on opioids exclusively either. But it's my opioid use that doubles as a form of self medication for me. It's the most effective way in the short term to feel 'good'. My drug addiction has lead to its own set of problems with my mother, boyfriends, relationships generally, not to mention financially and immoral things I've done for drug money.
So for me it's both, to kill pain and for recreation.
I'm not surprised you've noticed this trend. You need only look at the statistics for rehab patients to see it's linked.