So, as you will have heard, Jordan Peterson has gone into rehab after becoming dependent on anti-anxiety medication following his wife's illness:
https://www.westernjournal.com/jordan-peterson-rehab-horrific-withdrawal/
So how do we feel about this? For myself I have to admit to struggling with a bit of the old
schaudenfraude. My own feelings about the guy, and what he seems to stand for have always been somewhat mixed (see above somewhere).
On the one hand I very much respect the way he has raised - and addressed - the issue of spiraling suicides among young men. On the other, that whole `pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps` machismo attitude I just couldn't fully relate to. (And I speak as a lover of self-help psychology!)
He always made me feel a little as if he was pointing at me and going: `You! Yes YOU Zeke! Pull yourself together you namby pampy liberal loser!`
But now... its as if the tables have turned a bit. I mean I'm in my fifties - and, okay my wife has never had cancer (mostly owing to th fact that I don't have a wife!) - but I have undergone various trials and tribulations (mind your own business!) - and throughout it all I have never become drug dependent and in fact have never required any kind of psychiatric counselling.
Who's standing on their own two feet now, Jordy-boy?
I should add that, if he handles this right, Peterson's overall message could emerge from this strengthened rather than weakened. If he embraces a bit of humility and vulnerability - accepts that sometimes shit happens and that it can knock the best of men sideways - he could become a sort of Wounded Healer (they very best type of healer, that is).
I think this video is very much to the point: