I can’t imagine a more comprehensive reason for why kids get high or end up addicted. They love the way it makes them feel. It affects their brain, emotions, social life, ability to cope, school, relationship with their parents, everything!
Loving to get high has nothing to do with their moral character or how well you parented them. It is simply a discovery of monumental proportions. It changes their life. It gives them something to believe in, live for, excel at, enjoy, and call their own.
As a parent, this whole scenario poses a huge problem. Your kids are going to lie. They love the way getting high makes them feel and they don’t want you to find out, so they are going to lie, big time!
My wife and I know about this first hand. One of our sons kept his getting high a secret from us for three years. That either makes us really dumb or him really invested in protecting his “love of getting high”. Maybe it’s a combination of both.
Needless to say, as parents, we are totally unprepared to deal with something if we are not aware of it. It is my hope that by identifying loving to get high as a syndrome, we will start to recognize it and start to see the subtle signs and symptoms, even when it is covered up and lied about.
Loving to get high syndrome is very common amongst our teens; we’re just not aware of it and our kids are probably not the ones who are going to tell us all about it. I guess that’s my job.
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