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Originally Posted by Mutt
The brain isn't physical? It's the most complex organ in the entire human body and the least understood, we've barely scratched the surface. As time goes on and neuro biology and neuro psychiatry progresses there is more evidence that there are physical reasons for most personality/behaviour/mood disorders.
My question is and it's not answered yet is does what we think and do affect brain chemistry - right now it seems all I read about is chemical imbalances and other abnormalities in how a person's brain works being the cause of these type of disorders not vice versa.
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To me, the important difference is in how we recognize and treat these people as a society. We've lost the part us where being a junkie was one small notch above child rapist. (incidentally, most of the same arguments for being a junkie and why its not their fault, can be made for a child rapist as well)
If you are a junkie, you should be judged and scorned and ridiculed and held up as an example of failure and as "what not to be".
Today, we live in a world where junkies are openly celebrated on TV and in the media.. where a hardcore drug addict like Charlie Sheen can become a hero as he fully implodes, loses his kids, his career and everything he cares about. Hollywood is full of twits that party day and night, most of whom are addicts that should be talked about and treated as such... but they aren't. They're just the cool kids now.