I am too. If I was his sponsor.... hoooo boy.... we'd be talking for an hour a day and he'd be going to at least 2 meetings a day until he started to get that first step.
He has not yet admitted he is powerless over his addiction. He still thinks his life can be manageable with drugs.
It's obvious to me.
What's worse is that he's blaming others for his troubles.
If that's not junkie behavior, I don't know what is.
He doesn't "own" what happened, at least not in his public persona.
Bad, very bad.
Are you talking about anti-depressants?
No kidding? Reeeeeally??? The actual truth is easily discoverable right here on Free Republic, eeeeeeeven:
Excerpts of the truth of the matter:
Rush Speaks! His First Public Comments
Posted on 11/17/2003 5:28 PM EST by PeteFromMontana
"...I would have had no idea how to do this myself. ..."
"I tried to treat myself twice for my addiction. I detoxed myself twice and tried to do it by force of will, but this is something someone cannot do alone. ..."
"...It's something that I must do, but I can't do it alone, either. ..."
"So I am who I am. Nobody made any attempt to change me in terms of my core and this sort of thing, other than as it relates to the problem I have, the addiction. But that's, again, something that I deal with myself, and there's a part of it that will be shared. ..."
"I have to do what's best for me if I'm to succeed at this. ...I can no longer anticipate what I think people want and try to give that to them. I can no longer try to live my life by making other people happy. I can no longer turn over the power of my feelings to anybody else, which is what I have done a lot of my life. I have thought that I had to be this way or that way in order to be liked or appreciated or understood - and in the process, I denied myself who I was and I denied the other people I was talking to and relating with who I really am, and that isn't good."
"You can boil it down to one real simple essence: I can't be responsible for anybody's happiness but my own, and if I allow somebody else the power to determine my happiness, then...well...that's something I don't want to do. I can't do [it] any longer. I put myself first. Doesn't mean be rudely selfish. It just means I can't depend on other people to make me happy. I have to do that myself. I'm the only one who has control over that.
"...I am powerless over this addiction that I have. I used to think I could beat it with force of will. I used to think that I would be different, but I'm not."
"I'm just like anybody else who has an addiction. I'm powerless over it .."