Here Is A Good Way To Conceptualize Matthew Perry And Addiction

Nice three-paragraph quote here.

Ted Bauer
3 min readNov 6, 2023

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I took it from this article:

Too often we treat people’s mistakes as moral failures and shape their deaths into cautionary tales rather than recognize our own intense need for love and connection and admit how encumbered by shame many of us are. We continue to have our own versions of the conversation Mr. Perry had with his mother, looking for love and forgiveness from figures in our lives instead of locating these things within ourselves.

We shouldn’t paint a life like Mr. Perry’s as fatally flawed or doomed from the start. We shouldn’t mourn only the loss of a talent and portray the offscreen life as a…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

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