addiction as self-medication
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Eminem
Most artists put distance between themselves and their wound. Eminem pointed a microphone at it. The Kim Scott wound, the absent father, the mother who medicated and disappeared: all of it went into the catalog, named and detailed, screamed at full volume. The result is one of the most psychologically transparent bodies of work in popular music. The question is not what the art says. The question is what it cost him that the art was the only place he could say it.
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Matthew Perry
For ten years, Matthew Perry made the world laugh as a man who used humor to keep people at arm's length. He was doing this on camera. He was also doing it in his actual life, to actual people, for the same reason. The character and the person were not the same, but they were built from the same material: humor as the one form of connection that does not require you to be seen.
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