Daily Inspiration Quote by Dana Plato

Plato’s line lands less like a manifesto than a weary diagnosis from someone who’s watched “personal issues” get mislabeled as personal failure. The phrasing is bluntly conversational, but the framing is pointed: “society has put on them” shifts the blame upstream, away from individual moral weakness and toward the systems that manufacture shame, scarcity, and stigma. It’s not an absolution; it’s a reallocation of accountability.

The subtext is a quiet rebuke to an entertainment culture that profits off brokenness and then scolds people for showing it. When Plato talks about “an awful lot of problems,” she’s flattening the tidy hierarchy between “real” suffering and the kind that gets dismissed as drama. The second clause, “a lot to work through because of it,” makes the cruelty cumulative: society doesn’t just cause harm; it invoices you for recovery. Therapy, reputation repair, getting clean, staying employed, learning to trust again - the labor of healing becomes another job, often performed without resources or mercy.

Context matters. Plato’s life was tabloid-familiar: a child star turned cautionary tale in the public imagination, repeatedly reduced to headlines about addiction and instability. Heard there, the quote reads as self-defense, but it’s bigger than that. It’s a demand to see how institutions (media, courts, employers, even “concerned” audiences) turn vulnerability into a spectacle and then call the wreckage a character flaw. The intent isn’t to romanticize pain; it’s to name the machinery that keeps producing it.