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Date Posted: 15:34:59 02/03/14 Mon
Author: Cece
Subject: As someone who appreciates actors (having failed aspirations of being one myself), I just don't buy that actors are more sensitive than the rest of us, particularly as the large majority of actors, famous and otherwise, don't go down the road of hedonistic pleasures just because they can afford to. I used to watch Celebrity Rehab with the kind Dr Drew Pinsky. Drugs made these celebs very unpleasant people, at least while they were still detoxing. (inside)
In reply to: mj 's message, "Actors are people who are, for the most part, very sensitive, souls. Hollywood can be a soul-less place and I just read something that Jim Carrey wrote about the death of his friend when he said: "Dear r Philip, a beautiful, beautiful soul. For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much. Bless your heart." Yhis really sums it up. Adding to that, some of the 'spiritual gurus' that prey on vulnerable sensitive actors and stars are so full of BS that they lead people down the wrong paths and to even darker places. I pray for him and his family and wish I knew how to stop the madness!" on 12:25:03 02/03/14 Mon

I also watch Intervention, both the US and Canadian versions. The addicted person on these shows is never famous and rarely well off. I watch it because I have had guys working for me who have used crack cocaine, crystal meth, heroine etc. and I want to know how to recognize the behaviours and how to deal with the problem.

Most of these people and those on the show have had hard lives, and tough circumstances. Are they, too, move sensitive than other mortals? Maybe. Who knows? All I know is that, while I don't want to see the death of anyone before their time, and while I might miss a favourite artist, the Hollywood cliche of drug and alcohol abuse, not to mention bad behaviour, and multiple broken marriages of many members of the golden set, even given their amaazing good fortune, has inured me to their sad plights. For the most part, these people had far more choices than the poor street people, or for than matter, more choices than any of us.

There are just too many people who I really love and care about, who are presently suffering, or have died early from illnesses they had no control over. For them I reserve my grief.

And there are millions of unknown, unfamous, people in the world, sensitive and otherwise, who have to fight wars, poverty, and hunger. If I can, for the sake of my sanity, distance myself from their tragic reality, I can certainly, from a position of ennui, look at the fate of famous druggies with only a passing, depressing, modicum of interest.

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[> [> [> Well said, Cece. Addiction may be a disease once it gets hold of you, but if you don't take that first hit, you won't getting hooked. -- Deemus, 07:56:03 02/04/14 Tue [1]


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[> [> [> [> agreed - my favorite thing my mother taught me- that I believed and emparted to my children- If you need drugs or alchohol to have a good time, you're in the wrong place with the wrong people. -- chris k, 10:06:51 02/05/14 Wed [1]


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[> [> [> [> [> Something else well said! I agree completely. -- Deemus, 12:39:39 02/06/14 Thu [1]


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[> [> [> [> [> Very good advice! -- JJ Ronda, 06:35:58 02/07/14 Fri [1]


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