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re: Anyone have a family member that threw their life away with drugs?
Posted on 2/8/24 at 7:01 am to Scuttle But
Posted on 2/8/24 at 7:01 am to Scuttle But
My younger brother.
He was a really smart, charismatic, funny and handsome guy. Had a really great job in retail management on the West Coast that had some great potential to move into a really well paying career.
Got into meth in his mid-20s and it broke his brain.
He’s now in his late 40s, looks like a skeleton with skin, has false teeth, hasn’t worked in 10 years and is addicted to benzodiazepines and I suspect he still uses coke and meth when he can scrape up the money - but mostly he just sleeps.
It’s profoundly sad because he was a great kid and I know he’s hurting. But the substances have a hold on him that he doesn’t want to break.
Drugs are bad.
He was a really smart, charismatic, funny and handsome guy. Had a really great job in retail management on the West Coast that had some great potential to move into a really well paying career.
Got into meth in his mid-20s and it broke his brain.
He’s now in his late 40s, looks like a skeleton with skin, has false teeth, hasn’t worked in 10 years and is addicted to benzodiazepines and I suspect he still uses coke and meth when he can scrape up the money - but mostly he just sleeps.
It’s profoundly sad because he was a great kid and I know he’s hurting. But the substances have a hold on him that he doesn’t want to break.
Drugs are bad.
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Posted on 2/8/24 at 7:14 am to Jimbojambojumbo
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It’s profoundly sad because he was a great kid and I know he’s hurting. But the substances have a hold on him that he doesn’t want to break.
I liken it to an evil little monkey that rides your back and whispers that you are powerless.
And he cracks his whip and his shadow is cast so so damn big. It makes you feel powerless, chasing the fleeting highs, those momentary escapes from the pain, the shame, the sorrow.
Addiction, of any sort. Can make you a slave. Allow you to make any justification for your behavior. Because that goddamn monkey is in control of your soul, at least it feels like.
He's riding you into oblivion and he's a motherfricker to shake off. He'll scream how you are nothing without him, how you need him, how no one cares about you. Every lie he can think of.
You need help to do it, but you can get that monkey off your back. Gotta want it bad enough and be willing to surrender to something other than the monkey though.
This post was edited on 2/8/24 at 7:16 am
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