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<blockquote data-quote="Nandina" data-source="post: 764116" data-attributes="member: 23742"><p>Thank you for your prayers and kind thoughts, New Leaf. You have been at this a long time and have worked hard at lifting yourself up out of that darkness. But it takes great effort, doesn’t it?</p><p></p><p>Bless you for providing a loving and stable home for your grands in the midst of it all. When you can, I hope you’ll give us an update on how they’re doing. I pray they are doing well. </p><p></p><p>(my quote thingy is not working again)</p><p></p><p>As far as meth being so dangerous and hard to kick, I’ve learned that today’s meth is so much more damaging than the meth of our day. That meth was bad enough, but didn’t cause the almost instantaneous psychosis and delusional behavior that today’s meth does. It is just shocking to watch the effect it has on the mind and body of a loved one in such a short amount of time.</p><p></p><p>It’s strange, I gave my son so many stern warnings not to even <em>try</em> meth. I would tell him it’s made with drain cleaner and other nasty chemicals you never want in your body. Surely that would dissuade him, I thought. I told him he had huge addiction issues in his family with both parents and both sets of grandparents being alcoholics/addicts and that he could become instantly addicted if he touched it. What good did it do? Sometimes I wonder if my warnings just made him more curious to try it. As you say, New Leaf, <em>sigh</em>.</p><p></p><p>As a parent, you hope your talks and lectures and sage advice will make an impression on your child. When they are ignored, it feels like a big slap in the face. Why did he ignore that? Does he even respect me as a parent? I thought I was getting through.</p><p></p><p>My dad warned us kids of the ravaging effects of heroin use when I was young. He said all it would take is trying it one time and you would become instantly addicted. Believe me, he had me so scared I never, ever considered it!</p><p></p><p>I once had a doctor tell me that every time my son’s birth mom took a hit off her crack pipe, or smoked meth, that baby in her womb, who eventually became my adopted son, was taking that hit as well, and getting a “rush“ from it, even before he was born. That image is hard to fathom. But it probably set my son up for his eventual attraction to drugs. However, he opened the floodgates by trying them the first time in spite of all my sage parental advice.</p><p></p><p>I am full of questions with no answers like many of us probably are. But I so appreciate the comforting words from all of you who “get it.” Thank you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nandina, post: 764116, member: 23742"] Thank you for your prayers and kind thoughts, New Leaf. You have been at this a long time and have worked hard at lifting yourself up out of that darkness. But it takes great effort, doesn’t it? Bless you for providing a loving and stable home for your grands in the midst of it all. When you can, I hope you’ll give us an update on how they’re doing. I pray they are doing well. (my quote thingy is not working again) As far as meth being so dangerous and hard to kick, I’ve learned that today’s meth is so much more damaging than the meth of our day. That meth was bad enough, but didn’t cause the almost instantaneous psychosis and delusional behavior that today’s meth does. It is just shocking to watch the effect it has on the mind and body of a loved one in such a short amount of time. It’s strange, I gave my son so many stern warnings not to even [I]try[/I] meth. I would tell him it’s made with drain cleaner and other nasty chemicals you never want in your body. Surely that would dissuade him, I thought. I told him he had huge addiction issues in his family with both parents and both sets of grandparents being alcoholics/addicts and that he could become instantly addicted if he touched it. What good did it do? Sometimes I wonder if my warnings just made him more curious to try it. As you say, New Leaf, [I]sigh[/I]. As a parent, you hope your talks and lectures and sage advice will make an impression on your child. When they are ignored, it feels like a big slap in the face. Why did he ignore that? Does he even respect me as a parent? I thought I was getting through. My dad warned us kids of the ravaging effects of heroin use when I was young. He said all it would take is trying it one time and you would become instantly addicted. Believe me, he had me so scared I never, ever considered it! I once had a doctor tell me that every time my son’s birth mom took a hit off her crack pipe, or smoked meth, that baby in her womb, who eventually became my adopted son, was taking that hit as well, and getting a “rush“ from it, even before he was born. That image is hard to fathom. But it probably set my son up for his eventual attraction to drugs. However, he opened the floodgates by trying them the first time in spite of all my sage parental advice. I am full of questions with no answers like many of us probably are. But I so appreciate the comforting words from all of you who “get it.” Thank you. [/QUOTE]
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