I think it also has to do with the overall bad mental health that a lot of people have. We donโt really have a lot of truly helpful solutions for most people.
Yeah, we have some facilities, but they can be inaccessible. If youโre in denial over struggling, you might think that the amount you drink is ok, even if that amount might not actually be ok. Someone might see mental health or addiction stereotypes and think to themselves โIโm not as bad as that guyโ, and then that person believes that they are ok when they really arenโt ok.
If someone seriously doesnโt want to stick around, theyโre probably not going to care about littering. If someone hates everyone, theyโre probably more likely to feel ok stealing. If someoneโs constantly in mental agony, they might look for anything to escape it. If you think dinner is completely ruined, you probably wonโt fret about what drink you want to pair with it.
None of this makes the bad stuff ok, but I seriously think that bettering our countryโs mental health services would go a very long way in culling addiction. What weโre doing now certainly isnโt working.