That’s not 100% true. Exhaustion is real. Can you watch the same Marvel super hero movie for the n-th time, even though you loved the first few? You can’t, you just get tired. Burn out is real even amongst addicts.

You literally get tired of this shit. Before I became an addict, another legitimate addict told me why he stopped - he just got tired. I’m talking years of daily drinking, and all the consequences that come with it (every bridge burnt, every path destroyed, credentialed as a true fuck-up). Exhausted.

That’s the thing about abuse. If you took one hit of cocaine, and you die, that’s the end of your abuse. Addicts can take hit after hit after hit, and still live. That’s scarier than death, and extremely tiring.

I am tired of it, pure exhaustion is a way out. The implication of that is that you yourself are such a piece of shit that you didn’t quit until you yourself got tired.

It’s shameful.