Maybe the heroin was an attempt to relieve himself of the depression.
Word on the street was that Kurt Cobain had a longtime, recurring stomach ailment that caused him a lot of pain, and doctors sorta poo-pood his malady; he began to self medicate because of that, and eventually became addicted to heroin.
But really, if I was married to that wench I'd eat hard drugs by the mouthful too. (Acually he had this problem long before he met that woman. I am just being snarky).
“Maybe the heroin was an attempt to relieve himself of the depression.”
Yeah, I wouldn’t doubt that. But I have a hard time comparing the two—hard drug addiction and underlying depression—side by side and settling on depression as the primary cause. There’s first of all the nebulous nature of depression. Was it ever clinically diagnosed, or might it derive from a general sense of his unhappiness based on gloomy lyrics, dirty hair and clothes, a sullen visage, etc.
Secondly, though we have no way of knowing, except perhaps to consult relevant facts pertaining to whatever therapy and addiction treatment he may have undergone, there’s the question of to what degree the drugs exacerbated the underlying condition. They tend to do that.
Thirdly, there’s the firm connection between hard drug use and self-destructive behavior/short life spans with or without depression.