Originally posted by Bashar Teg
I'd be happy for blake if he stopped drinking. but brolly, interventions are for family/friends to impose with. internet forum strangers cannot have interventions. I do believe you mean well, but you hang out with some mentally sick people online who obviously don't have his best interests at heart (not-eon)as whirly suggested, it's more constructive to reach out on your own, not with an internet mob at your back. if he doesn't respond, at least you tried, and can finally put it aside get some sleep tonight
Interventions, in general, are not very effective. People who eventually stop abusing substances altogether do so on their own. One day, the juice is no longer worth squeeze, and they give it up cold turkey. All interventions do is force a confrontation, and threaten immediate consequences if people do not accept help. So people will accept the help in that moment to escape that situation and those consequences, but they are not really committed to changing, because it was not their idea or their desire. In pretty short order, the quit the program and relapse, and that is the most dangerous time for a substance abuser. They have medically withdrawn from substances, and when they start taking them again, they often go back to them in doses when they had developed a high-tolerance, causing them to overdose. All you can really do with someone that has a problem is enforce boundaries and do not enable them. Let them experience the consequences of their behavior, and eventually, they will have enough.
Originally posted by Adam_PoELast time I went cold turkey I had a ****ing seizure. I thought it was a myth. Turns out, it's true.
Interventions, in general, are not very effective. People who eventually stop abusing substances altogether do so on their own. One day, the juice is no longer worth squeeze, and they give it up cold turkey. All interventions do is force a confrontation, and threaten immediate consequences if people do not accept help. So people will accept the help in that moment to escape that situation and those consequences, but they are not really committed to changing, because it was not their idea or their desire. In pretty short order, the quit the program and relapse, and that is the most dangerous time for a substance abuser. They have medically withdrawn from substances, and when they start taking them again, they often go back to them in doses when they had developed a high-tolerance, causing them to overdose. All you can really do with someone that has a problem is enforce boundaries and do not enable them. Let them experience the consequences of their behavior, and eventually, they will have enough.
Originally posted by Blakemore
Last time I went cold turkey I had a ****ing seizure. I thought it was a myth. Turns out, it's true.
you seem caught in some binge drinking trap. Maybe you should focus on limiting your supply, so that you are unable to poison yourself. it would probably mean a trip to the liquor store in very day, but you'd have a set daily amount which won't get you full-on blackout shit-faced if you say "f*ck it" and chug it all
Originally posted by Bashar Tegyeah, the docs said to cut down. Not go full on cold turkey, just gradually drink less.
you seem caught in some binge drinking trap. Maybe you should focus on limiting your supply, so that you are unable to poison yourself. it would probably mean a trip to the liquor store in very day, but you'd have a set daily amount which won't get you full-on blackout shit-faced if you say "f*ck it" and chug it all
Originally posted by BrolyBlack
I’m glad your listening to them and constructive criticism here. Appears Adam didn’t actually know what he was talking about and glad you don’t listen to him.
i thought this had to do with concern for xyz, and not for entertainment and settling scores with internet strangers.
Originally posted by Bashar Teg
i thought this had to do with concern for xyz, and not for entertainment and settling scores with internet strangers.
Adam tried to one up me by coming up with an arrogant way of acting, I guess you don’t see him always attacking me. Anyways doesn’t matter what he said is not what Blake should do.