By David Portney
Because I was born in 1960 and with brothers and sisters 4-8 years and more my senior, I was old enough to witness the "drug culture" first hand.
Sure, there might have been a time in my young, impetuous, devil-may-care years when I would have figured a little mild drug use to be mostly benign. To some extent, I still feel that way.
However, to quote the late-great Stevie Ray Vaughn, "At some point it's time to come home from the party".
I just read an article titled: Growing Numbers Use Pills For An Edge
I can understand using drugs to "get through" something, but my opinion is that you're better off "getting through" life's challenges by rising to the occasion instead of opening a bottle of pills to cope.
I believe that the increased levels of confidence you'll achieve by rising to challenges and then acquiring new skills, such as public speaking, are worth facing those kinds of challenges head-on instead of "killing it with pills".
What do you think?
See you later,
David
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I wrote several posts on this subject, starting with this one: http://tinyurl.com/c2wayj.
I find it frustrating that people want to medicate away anything that's uncomfortable in their lives, and furthermore, who are the doctors who prescribe these drugs?
In the long run, (as you pointed out, David) confronting our challenges helps us grow stronger and more confident. Growth won't come from a pill.
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