- When you get a call late Saturday night telling you that your son has overdosed and is in the Emergency Room, your DENIAL is confronted.
- When the Principal calls and tells you that your daughter has been suspended for coming to school drunk, your DENIAL is confronted.
- When you wake up in the middle of the night and your car and your kid are gone, your DENIAL is confronted, or at least it should be.
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Consequences: Confronting Parent’s Denial
Filed Under: loving to get high syndrome Tagged With: addiction, consequences, denial, drinking, family, getting high, loving to get high syndrome, lying, parenting, tough love, understanding
Reefer Madness?
Reefer Madness? Marijuana, increased potency is the gateway to a debate on addiction and treatment.
“It was as if she woke up one day, and decades of her life had disappeared. Joyce, 52 and a writer in Manhattan, started smoking pot when she was 15, and for years it was a pleasant escape, a calming protective cloud. Then it became an obsession, something she needed to get through the day. She found herself hiding her addiction from her family, friends and co-workers.”
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A lesson From a Pro on “Loving to Get High”
I just bought a book that describes in the most vivid way, loving to get high. It is Rolling Away: My Agony with Ecstasy, by Lynn Marie Smith.
Lynn describes her first experience with ecstasy:
“We were all silently looking at one another, waiting for someone to make the first move. I went to take a drink of my beer and as the coldness trickled down my throat, I was suddenly underneath a waterfall. A beautiful air passed through my entire body. My eyes slowly closed and I was in slow motion.” P. 29
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