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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 529708" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I think it is too hard to keep this all closed up inside. This poor man probably has been suffering for a very long time, possibly decades, and your sharing may have helped him see another way. I hope that you can make some time to talk with him privately and help him see that he isn't to blame and he should feel no shame. After all, he isn't the one who is addicted.</p><p></p><p>I was always pretty open about Wiz' problems and even somewhat about what I went through with my brother. He often has let me know that he thinks I am totally out of line for telling ANYONE, even the docs and tdocs, about the various problems. He usually says this is about Wiz, but I know it is because he wants people to think he is just soooo wonderful. he got super angry when he learned I knew someone he worked with at a literacy center. He wanted her to think he was perfect, and she overheard me speaking about something awful he had done the night before to my kids. Apparently she started supervising his literacy students far more closely and it was 'all my fault'. It turned otu to be a good thing because he was found to be encouraging some of his students to do some illegal things. She was able to keep them from doing those things which would have resulted in them being deported to a very dangerous country. </p><p></p><p>You are a very caring person and you probably gave this man the first glimpse of a bit of light for the first time in many years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 529708, member: 1233"] I think it is too hard to keep this all closed up inside. This poor man probably has been suffering for a very long time, possibly decades, and your sharing may have helped him see another way. I hope that you can make some time to talk with him privately and help him see that he isn't to blame and he should feel no shame. After all, he isn't the one who is addicted. I was always pretty open about Wiz' problems and even somewhat about what I went through with my brother. He often has let me know that he thinks I am totally out of line for telling ANYONE, even the docs and tdocs, about the various problems. He usually says this is about Wiz, but I know it is because he wants people to think he is just soooo wonderful. he got super angry when he learned I knew someone he worked with at a literacy center. He wanted her to think he was perfect, and she overheard me speaking about something awful he had done the night before to my kids. Apparently she started supervising his literacy students far more closely and it was 'all my fault'. It turned otu to be a good thing because he was found to be encouraging some of his students to do some illegal things. She was able to keep them from doing those things which would have resulted in them being deported to a very dangerous country. You are a very caring person and you probably gave this man the first glimpse of a bit of light for the first time in many years. [/QUOTE]
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