Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Much Needed Vacation For The Prime Minister | The Crown (Claire Foy)" video.

Eden was a hopeless drug addict, who presented his doctor with a classic problem faced by many GP's - prescribe what he wants or he'll get it from a pusher. The doctor in telling him to go to Jamaica and get some tropical sun was probably not about getting tropical sun, it was about getting him separated from his drugs. Eden was a classic case of drug addiction. Having experienced pain from operations, he was prescribed narcotics, and became addicted to them. He was using amphetamines as well, for no good reason. His medical issues at the time depicted in this video were of his own making. Take amphetamines - you initially feel good, then you feel down and depressed, and any minor pain seems like major pain.
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If I was The Boss, faced with a disgusting drug addict whose "medical issues" were of his own making, as Eden at that time was, I would stand judgment and not show sympathy too. As I in fact did when a guy on my team at work got himself addicted and his performance went downhill. I gave him an ultimatum - get off the drugs, you fool, or I'll sack you. It worked - he did give the drugs up and returned to being a valued worker. Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. At the time he reckoned I was the biggest prick, but later thanked me for making things clear. Eden at the time depicted was 59 - not particularly old. Certainly not elderly.
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Eden was a hopeless drug addict, addicted to narcotics and using amphetamines. His medical issues were mostly of his own making. The Queen was probably aware of this. While the Crown is speculative fiction, her behavior as depicted is what one might expect.
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@DavisJ-ln6fw His sickness was largely of his own making. He was a drug addict.
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Those bouts of poor health as the public were told, were the fruits of serious addiction to narcotics and amphetamines - Eden was a disgraceful drug addict. People get prescribed narcotics for pain from operations. When the pain subsides, they don't need the narcotics anymore. But a few get addicted and just continue to want more and more. Eden was one of those loosers, who go doctor shopping if necessary, to get prescriptions for more and more.
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@joewu294 No, he wanted more drugs - he was a hopeless addict. He was of the sort that present doctors with a problem - either give him what he wants or he'll go to the black market and get contaminated stuff that's worse. A typical addict who consumes narcotics and amphetamines - his pains were largely imaginary, and his stress and depression were the expected come downs from what he was addicted to.
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