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April 28, 2021,
Where do you go when there is nowhere else to go?
Especially if where you are at right now is very painful. Too painful. Long-term painful.
The need to escape, even for a few minutes, is overwhelming.
When people think of escaping pain or an undesired state, they tend to think of illicit drug use.
It is a form of medicating you know.
There are other forms of medicating to escape a stressful or painful existence with no thorough exits. No drugs involved either.
We knew of a situation where a college student who had everything going for her was having sex with one guy after another. She came from a very nice home in an upscale area with strong family support.
Therein was the problem.
She had the strong family support with even stronger expectations. Those parental expectations were extremely high, possibly in part to make up for their own disappointments.
When we discussed her situation with a female friend who was employed in the Human Services public sector, without thinking or blinking she replied, “She’s medicating.”
Interesting way of packaging things.
Medicating. Nice euphemism.
So obvious and yet we often attribute that type of behavior to a character flaw.
“I am on medication – I’ve talked about that before – just to help my anxiety, so I’m not depressed all the time.”…Lili Reinhart
Having said that, it still might be true. To try and medicate your stress or problems away are always only a temporary solution. One line of reasoning might be that it takes real character to analyze our personal pain and vet out the root cause. Then take steps to address it. Solve it.
You have to examine the heart of the problem.
It takes courage. A character strength.
Medicating is such a common approach to escaping that we can find many songs that speak to it but one beautiful babe that artistically speaks to it so well is Tove Lo.
Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson, known professionally as Tove Lo is a mood penetrating Swedish singer and songwriter.
Also called “Sweden’s darkest pop export” by Rolling Stone, she is known for her raw, grunge-influenced take on pop music. Her honest, complex and autobiographical lyrical content has led to her being dubbed “the saddest girl in Sweden”.
One of her greatest hits speaks to that. When we listen to it, we think of our young college girl above.
Her life in the daytime was horribly disappointing so it was at night that she came to life.
What is the name of the song? Appropriately Stay High. Here are the lyrics:
I gotta stay high all the time
To keep you off my mind
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
High all the time
To keep you off my mind
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Spend my days locked in a haze
Trying to forget you babe
I fall back down
Gotta stay high all my life
To forget I’m missing you
Staying in my play pretend
Where the fun ain’t got no end
Ooh
Can’t go home alone again
Need someone to numb the pain
It is not the approach we have taken but trust us, we can certainly relate.
Yes, at times the disappointments in life can be so painful, especially the failures that we can never do over again where the windows and doors have permanently closed but the memories do not.
That was song. Now to film.
Euphoria is an American teen drama television series created by Sam Levinson, loosely based on the Israeli miniseries of the same name originally created by Ron Leshem, Daphna Levin, and Tmira Yardeni.
The series stars Zendaya, Maude Apatow and Sydney Sweeney and premiered on HBO on June 16, 2019.
How well received was sit?
In July 2019, the series was renewed for a second season.
The story follows a group of high school students as they navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, the social media and the operative word, trauma.
Definitely the foundation problem that influences the desire to medicate.
An audience reviewer at Rotten Tomatoes shared, “So raw. It feels like you’re having the most beautiful dream but also the most terrifying nightmare.”
Insightful. Let’s now turn to the professionals.
Neatly wrapped at www.vox.com, “The true audience of HBO’s new teen drama Euphoria isn’t really teens. It’s not even the parents of teens. No, the true audience for Euphoria is parents of kids who are about 5 to 10 years old, who still have relatively good relationships with those kids but can see the storm clouds on the horizon.”
It seems to be a cross between analyzing why teens are so volatile and screwed up to the makings of a love story between Juliet and Juliet.
Either way, at times Euphoria is riveting or the sources of the teen angst propel them to medicate.
What is intriguing is that with this day’s generation, if you go by Euphoria, it is the general meaningless and hopelessness of life that has them medicating.
They don’t hope in anything.
They don’t believe in anything.
Sex is not lovemaking between two young people falling in love. Sex is porn. Sex is aggressive and non-romantic. Animalistic even.
That are few rules and little is sacred.
In their minds, their parents sure didn’t get it right.
So they medicate.
With the usual suspects from the disappointments and angst of previous generations. Booze, sex and drugs.
And the story continues. A storyline that you are probably familiar with. A storyline that would make Olivia Hussey, the original modern day Juliet of Romeo and Juliet fame, very proud.
Today’s version?
Girl meets girl.
Girl falls in love with girl.
Girl has sex with girl.
Girl gives girl drugs.
Both girls try out for casting on Orange Is The New Black and The L Word, Season Three.
Yes, yes it is a story we’ve seen so many times before.
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”… Anna Deavere Smith
Most of us have stress and disappointments. Maybe like in Euphoria, general disillusion.
Whatever ails us, we might need to escape.
To medicate.
To get lost in an incredible non-medicinal distraction.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tove_Lo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria_(American_TV_series)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/euphoria/s01
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/23/18701226/euphoria-premiere-pilot-episode-1-recap-zendaya-hbo
https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/medication-quotes
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