2011-07-25, 08:46 PM
Myles Wrote:I do feel sorry for her. She had no support from family. Her father was a cold, heartless bastard. Where was he when she needed him when she was going through her roughest moments? Nowhere to be seen. Yes, it was her own fault to get into the drink and drugs, but with no support of course she was going to spiral out of control. It's so f'ucking sad because some people are so heartless. Addiction isn't something some people can just go "right, imma stop taking drugs now". Not everyone has strong willpower.
What a beautiful voice, gone. She could've been bigger than Madonna.
This. I'm especially surprised at the haters not giving a pomegranate because she was an addict, and the fact that this is a Maplestory forum. Like hello? How many of you can up and quit cold turkey the game that brought us all here in the first place? For some of us it wasn't easy. Addiction is a nasty beast, and it's not something to scoff at.
Plus, do any of you really understand rehab success? A lot of you are acting like people can breeze through rehab once or even drop something without a second thought and be done with it. Sure, some people can, but for the MAJORITY of people suffering any kind of addiction it takes a strong support network, time, and true commitment. I can speak to all of this because my roommate this past year, one of my closest friends, is a recovering bulimic, and I say recovering because, while she went to treatment for it 6 years ago, the eating disorder is, in her own words, a "lifetime disease" that became manageable only through rehab. In the end, though, rehab only has a minimal success rate, usually in the 10-20% range, so like I said, it's not something everyone breezes through as a one-and-done fix.
So you want to dislike something about Amy Winehouse's personal life? Dislike that she didn't have the personal dedication yet to get through rehab successfully. But like I said above, that's only one part of the solution, and considering she was missing the other components because of her tortured life, the last thing this great artist needs at her death is flak from ignorant, potentially hypocritical hardcore gamers.