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Mini update, difficult child now living out of state
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 625513" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I actually think you make perfect sense to most of us. We all know drugs impact maturity.</p><p></p><p>Another one of my true life stories that bore people to death lol: I went out with a guy who was 35 after my divorce. He had a really good job and had been at his job for four years. Before that he had been a carny worker. You know...the only thing he did was travel around the country starting and stopping carnival rides, traveling with the carnivals, using drugs, mainly just pot. I asked him what changed and he said he after his daughter was born he knew he had to quit the pot, but that it was incredibly hard for him to quit because of the psychological addiction. That surprised me as so many people try to say it's not hard to quit because it's not physically addictive. But he said otherwise. He had to go to therapy for a year and he still thinks about it. Anyhow, as soon as he stopped the chronic pot smoking, he got an office job and worked his way up and is doing great now. He did not seem immature at all so maybe you catch up after you stop. So there is always hope. Sometimes having a child is the magic ticket...it certainly was for this man.</p><p></p><p>Your son is still young enough to turn his life around, but he has to want to do it and he has to drop the mindset t hat pot is harmless, which is hard to do in our current environment. Maybe recreational, once-in-a-whle pot is harmless to many people, just like drinking is. But it is not harmless to everybody and I'll bet it turnsj out that some people are more prone to overusing it than others are.</p><p></p><p>One thing this 35 year DID admit was that his memory has been affected forever from the pot. He had once had a great memory and now he had to take lots of notes and use calendars and has never recovered the good memory he'd had in his early teens, before he started using pot every day for years.</p><p></p><p>I wish your son good luck and a wake up call. And you did a great job. All of us, I think, have to bite our tongues a lot. Goes with the territory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 625513, member: 1550"] I actually think you make perfect sense to most of us. We all know drugs impact maturity. Another one of my true life stories that bore people to death lol: I went out with a guy who was 35 after my divorce. He had a really good job and had been at his job for four years. Before that he had been a carny worker. You know...the only thing he did was travel around the country starting and stopping carnival rides, traveling with the carnivals, using drugs, mainly just pot. I asked him what changed and he said he after his daughter was born he knew he had to quit the pot, but that it was incredibly hard for him to quit because of the psychological addiction. That surprised me as so many people try to say it's not hard to quit because it's not physically addictive. But he said otherwise. He had to go to therapy for a year and he still thinks about it. Anyhow, as soon as he stopped the chronic pot smoking, he got an office job and worked his way up and is doing great now. He did not seem immature at all so maybe you catch up after you stop. So there is always hope. Sometimes having a child is the magic ticket...it certainly was for this man. Your son is still young enough to turn his life around, but he has to want to do it and he has to drop the mindset t hat pot is harmless, which is hard to do in our current environment. Maybe recreational, once-in-a-whle pot is harmless to many people, just like drinking is. But it is not harmless to everybody and I'll bet it turnsj out that some people are more prone to overusing it than others are. One thing this 35 year DID admit was that his memory has been affected forever from the pot. He had once had a great memory and now he had to take lots of notes and use calendars and has never recovered the good memory he'd had in his early teens, before he started using pot every day for years. I wish your son good luck and a wake up call. And you did a great job. All of us, I think, have to bite our tongues a lot. Goes with the territory. [/QUOTE]
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