[this iswhoIam]

I experienced the loss of a loved on a few years back.
It felt like I had been hit by a freight train.
everyday dragged on in misery and I just couldn't see an end to the pain.
I was at my complete wits end and willing to try anything to take the edge off.
So I tried meth.
I don't know that I would have made it through the darkness without it.
With that said, then why or why do we insist on suffering through pain?
If science knows what parts of the brain drugs affect, and the when and why and how of it all, then why wont they make a drug that does what illegal drugs do, but without the side effects?
What is so wrong with feeling good and being happy?
Why should we have to work through loss of a loved one with only support group help?
Why haven't they made a drug to help take the edge of the first month of grieving?
Why are we so hell bent on being miserable?

[Altered Moment]

I don't think we are so hell bent on being miserable we are just forced to be. Why is there suffering in the world? I dunno. I don't think anyone knows. Science is very far away from making a pill like you describe. They can't make antidepressents that work that good.

I would be very careful with meth, in fact I would advise you don't touch the stuff. It caused me way more misery in the long run than it did me good.

[Perna]

Escaping is not working through. Time alone does not heal grief and if one goes "elsewhere"/into drug-induced feelings, (a) a drug that powerful has to be addictive (if only emotionally)/"in charge" and (b) nothing gets done on the grieving front, one just gets emotionally behind and that makes it hard to "catch up" to real/present Life as it is and, the drug re-enforces itself ("What's the use I might as well just use the drug and escape all this unpleasantness/difficulty catching up").

Who is going to pay for the drug and one's non-participation in society? Everyone has grief and difficult times in life. If we all check out, decide we just want to feel good instead of work hard to support ourselves, who's going to do the work to keep society and life running?

[hamasnk358]

People do not wish to see others suffer, and we all escape our reality one way or another. However, the means which we escape are not always sufficient into the far future. When people tell you not to use drugs, they might know what is best for you. We all have something that we refuse to admit to ourselves, so society must do it for us.

This is one miserable world, but beauty is still here. For every friend dead, another will await. Never forget the old, but cherish the new.

[Koko2]

Originally Posted by this iswhoIam

I was at my complete wits end and willing to try anything to take the edge off.
So I tried meth.
I don't know that I would have made it through the darkness without it.
With that said, then why or why do we insist on suffering through pain?
If science knows what parts of the brain drugs affect, and the when and why and how of it all, then why wont they make a drug that does what illegal drugs do, but without the side effects?
What is so wrong with feeling good and being happy?

In Colorado or Washington state, there's legal marijuana. Habitual meth use can wreck your health. I advise staying away from that.

They did make a few drugs that take the edge off during the first month of grieving - benzodiazepines, opiates, alcohol, tranquilizers, skeletal muscle relaxants, quaaludes, and barbiturates for example.