Demi Lovato Talks Drugs, PSH & Selena

The 21-year-old opens up about Selena Gomez's rehab stint and why she penned an opened letter after Philip Seymour Hoffman's death.

[MS-cutl]

I love how Demi respected Selena’s private business and didn’t spill any tea for the media. THAT shows that Demi really cared for Selena and didn’t use it for attention

[imee]

"She's amazing I love her" roll

[theseeker]

Guys, for all of you saying addiction is not a disease and it's a choice taking drugs, trust me, it's not that easy. Yes, taking drugs is not a disease. But the reason that leads you to taking drugs is. And it's not easy to stop once you're in. You don't just choose to stop. It doesn't work like that. Having battled with depression and anxiety for years, I can remember myself always looking for ways out. Always looking for something to cover up the void and emptyness. You cannot understand unless you experience it. When you feel so sad and empty, some drugs can give you a sense of "joy" and excitement. That feeling of getting high. You get to laugh, you get to have fun. Even for a short while. And when you are so depressed and sad for long periods, finding a way to make you "happy", forget and "escape" is your only way of avoiding your sad thoughts. And if you try it once, then you want to get back to this state again. So you repeat it. Again and again. Your brain gets addicted. Not to the drug itself, but to that feeling of "high" you get to experience for a while. You don't want to stop it because it's the only thing that makes you enjoy your moments. But after repeating for too long then your body gets addicted to the substance as well. That's when it gets rough. You get shakes, sweating, itching, feeling cold, anxiety, nerves, anger, etc. when you suddenly cut down drugs after taking them for long. It becomes a need. Both mentally and physically. It's not as easy as it sounds. You can't just stop it. You can't just wake up one day and decide to never use again. It just won't happen. I know because I've been there in the past. And while I am sober at the moment ( I'm clean for almost 2 years now ) I am still fighting against my addiction. Everyday feels like I'm one step away from relapsing. I have to constantly keep myself busy and destracted and fill my days with stuff that will keep me thinking other things. But even then, it's still hard. Especially since I've never overcome my depression. Some days, the feeling of emptyness is so intense, that I would try anything to get some "excitement". Especially when I'm lonely or sad, I would give anything just to get me one hour of feeling high. And I want it so much. And it is so hard to stay clean. But I have to remind myself of that last time when I almost ended up dead. It's a never-ending battle I believe. And a battle that I hardly get to win. But it's not as easy as you make it out to be. Trust me.

[zakattk]

Everyone saying addiction isn't a disease, I'm genuinely curious as to what their take on alcoholism is, I believe that's generally considered a disease, yet isn't "a hard drug you choose to take/put on yourself". What about gambling, sex, shopping, now this might be stretching it but adrenaline addiction too. She's saying addiction is the disease, some people have addictive personalities and are born being more at risk to become addicted-to something.

[aniruddhaamaiti]

Demi and Selena .G. are always BFF
Love both of them...

[GabrielSiddiq]

this makes me think about Amy Winehouse

[tiffanilinde]

She's so amazing and beautiful and so cool

[onlyrealelsasforme]

Demi lovato is demi lovato and i believe in the quote "there's no such thing as mental illness, only varying degrees of irresponsibility", but like i love demi dont get me wrong. Her music has helped me through stuff better than any other music in my whole life. And i honestly just yesterday (or something) realized i havent listened to her new album enough, and i think my life has lost some of its power as a result. I think i was listening to the negativity too much and just didnt fully own how truely and deeply significant she really is to me and my life. Like not in some superficial way either. See people are do undeveloped in certain areas of their brain (going off on a nit of a tangent) and dont get that theres not less substance to a human being because theyre famous or popular maybe or like.. its basically anything that is maybe popular with kids, or maybe disney. Like i dunno. So like i was saying. They think its fun to joke about people or their misfortunes and like to degrade and treat. Like really.. well very narrow.. possibly thick headed. Like just wont get a point. Prone to misinturpretation or overlooking something (like substance) No grasp of that whatever.

And that makes.. hmm ok back to my point.

Truth is that people actually do treat skitsophrenics like it's their fault, along with every other mental illness and disability known to man. Its not just drug addicts and alchoholics. Its downsyndrom, it's ADD, it's every single thing weather it be recognized and known or not.

So yeah what i liked was how she talked about compassion for people who have died from it, but i rhink the blame should still go on those people as well. People who abuse those people are sick individuals but you can call that caused by mental illness too.

[NanAe]

Y'all saying having mental illnesses or being addicted aren't disease's or you're born with it or you can't blame anyone but yourself. If a baby is tortured by it's parents because they're drinking or taking drugs and that child grows up to have problems, is it their fault? No. If there's a person who's bullied by everyone they're surrounded by and they don't know how to stand up for themselves, hide it from the people they know love them and do things to themselves to takeaway the pain of what people are doing to them, is it really their fault?! No. There are loads of reasons why someone might be hurting themselves on the outside because they hurt on the inside. A lot of people don't realize it's a real struggle to be fighting your own brain to not do something. This is why I love Demi. She's a great spokesperson on mental health and helping getting rid of the stigma around mental illnesses. I applaud her for it

[gracehumbles]

Woah this was exactly a year ago... How time flys

[kevinramos]

true demi. i need to go to rehab these pills are really making me go craxy

[theRealPlaidRabbit]

There would be no need to argue over whether addiction is a "disease" if people weren't so eager to climb on a high horse and judge others.  If we weren't so desperate to find a way to blame other people for their own sufferings (and pat ourselves on the back), we would never bother to split that hair.  
Self-righteousness is destructive in its own way, and is not better than cocaine, bulimia, or paranoid schizophrenia.  At the end of the day, all these things work progressively to destroy relationships, cut us off from ourselves, and are hard enough to climb out of that many many people who fall in never escape.

[Fouloul.]

That's all she talks about, she is only defined by addiction! Not a surprise she won't recover.

[patluciano]

If you have seen someone in your family do drugs and alcohol as a child naturally you are going to do it too because that’s how it goes if you have a son or a daughter in the family naturally she’s going to do drugs and alcohol to see what it tastes like and that’s how it is if a parent does drugs and alcohol the child will do it too that’s life and in every family it’s different they deal with drugs and alcohol in their own way so that’s it

[FELIX-qrvd]

It is your damn choice to do that in the first place. U shouldn’t even think of doing that

[michaelblake]

I love how people wont take responsibility for there actions and blame it on a "Disease", what a cop out, it's not a disease... it's addiction... you lust after the feeling of the drug, then you become dependent on it... the only people to blame are the ones who continued to do it and didn't stop until it was too late... stop blaming it on other things but yourself. This is coming from an alcoholic (me) who blames

[xtherealsunshinex]

Demi is so fake, look at her face 'Yeah, she's amazing, I love her' **rolls her eyes**, this isn't good.

[kattlynn]

bulimia is a choice, cutting isa choice

[marelynromo]

I feel like she jealous of Selena cause Selena career has gone farther then hers

[lenagennuso]

Schizophrenia is not the same as someone that goes and uses drugs