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Have You Ever Gotten An 'Intervention'?

bobert the man said:
You sound like a smart level headed person, and I think you need to simply be yourself. If one is to intervene, the classic "intervention" seems too impersonal. One is to be blatant, come across sincere, yet firm.

Let whoever it is know that you are an open level headed person. Let them know that you are not asking them to do anything at all, but rather consider how someone who is not anti drug and who wishes only the best cannot agree with the habits they have fallen into. If that person chooses that you are in fact wrong, then so be it. Dont force them to do anything. Remember, a few bad turns and that couldve have been you.

If you were the person in need of intervention, what would be required for YOU to listen.

Ask yourself that before you start running around and lying to people so you can trap them in a room and impose a lifestyle change.

My 0.02
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thanks.

well, lying is hardly the issue here. it would be less than a demi-lie to employ what i mentioned as deceptive teaching...but nevertheless. and i never meant it in the first place that i was planning to trap someone in a room and hold a trial and force confession. the issue is that I know that no one was able to help me, despite their attempts. I, having gone through this crap, should therefore know how to aid someone, theoretically, in my former position....but as I recall that it was something from the inside seeping out that aided me. The horror of the realization that I had been deceiving myself and calling my behavior normal or ignoring it was what led to the curbing of my behavior. I took no radical measures. I simply 'grew out', so now I am thinking, I didn't have a serious enough problem to begin with, rather it was just something that was very anti-me, it was me lying to me....which is the greatest sin i can imagine. Practically, I understand that if I ring all the bells and sound the sirens in alarum, I can help this person scramble out of the hole to at least get back onto the paved road again, and I know that that step is crucial, and imperative for recovery and the 'renaissance' so to speak, of the new self. But that WOULD be imposition, and I do not wish to impose. So is my unwillingness to impose a weakness? Am I weak in that I wish not to impose? Because objectively speaking, the health and safety of a person dear to me is more important than that person's friendship to me. If my rude intervention method [which i don't plan to employ anyway] were to work...the friendship would be ruined, or not...or he would come to the realization upon a clean and sober head that my attempts helped him in the end - but it's also possible that even with that in mind, an invasive method would seem like something too invasive and would ruin the friendship. So, in order to preserve the friendship, I am not intervening, yet i SHOULD? I don't believe in 'objectivism' of any sort but I see the rational method here is the classical intervention method. So what's going on.. I'm confused.

[please answer me only if you take my words seriously. i dont care about who says what in the e-world, but this is a serious topic and i'm honestly confused....delving into the study of clinical psychology and knowing many of its methods is actually spreading this dilemma outward from the center, like a wildfire..too much questioning. someone put me on track - if you please. i'd love some more opinions. i fear i might be overanalyzing or intellectualizing everything to an extreme unfit for transfer unto the practice of the physical world. someone not stuck in a loop like me, push me out, give me some advice...
 
My friends did one-ish for me one time. They started talking about how I should stop using heroin and to concentrate on college again. The irony was it was 4am and we had been doing lines of blow for 6 hours.

I should have listened though =/. Now I'm in rehab and I put myself here.

A friend of mine was the subject of the TV show Intervention one time. She did really good for about a year when she got out then went to a bar, got shitfaced, and passed out on the floor next to the kitchen door.
 
Yes, once. But..... it was only a business partner and my recent ex-gf, thankfully. And... uh.... well, fuck it. I was playing way too much Ultima Online and barely left the house for a week and a half. Thankfully it was at least as uncomfortable for them as it was me and we just stared at each other after that for a bit. And then i walked back across the street to be an orc again or some shit.
 
shake2 said:
^^^ you was weird. back to eating alot of c0ld pills again?
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I stop eating corcidins...the antihistamines were making me delusional more than
the dxm. I knew that triple cs had that potential but I when I was taking them I
wasn't too keen on life so I didn't care; that and you could buy generic ones for
a dollar
 
morphene said:
Yes, once. But..... it was only a business partner and my recent ex-gf, thankfully. And... uh.... well, fuck it. I was playing way too much Ultima Online and barely left the house for a week and a half. Thankfully it was at least as uncomfortable for them as it was me and we just stared at each other after that for a bit. And then i walked back across the street to be an orc again or some shit.
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hahahahahahhahahahahahah
 
jykkE said:
My friends did one-ish for me one time. They started talking about how I should stop using heroin and to concentrate on college again. The irony was it was 4am and we had been doing lines of blow for 6 hours.

I should have listened though =/. Now I'm in rehab and I put myself here.

A friend of mine was the subject of the TV show Intervention one time. She did really good for about a year when she got out then went to a bar, got shitfaced, and passed out on the floor next to the kitchen door.
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I'm curious, what is her name?

i watch that show all the time
 
I think im up to 4 , no wait 5 , no 4 .. all for stupid reasons . and a most of them by either friends who are straight edge and listen and rebuke everything theyve seen from TV or have smoked pot a few times and think they have the whole seen figured out ..

I began smoking pot around 16-17 out of curiosity , alot of people had been talking about it but it was never really my circle . i really kept to myself and later found out people thought i was a "prep" . well someone i befriended turned that around for me by smoking me up . needless to say i was in complete bliss for a good 2 hours and it was like a whole other world that i had been missing out on . Everything changed at school for me , i was getting into circles that i would have never even had the chance to get into . it was a whole new world for me.

that lasted a few months till i started reading on here and erowid reports about other substances and how they affected you and really wanted to see what those other substances felt like , more or less for experience purposes . I would rather live my life with regret than rather regret not knowing .

I moved on from pot , to psychs , to stimulants (which took a foothold quite quick) , to opiates (which later replaced stimulants (intervention #2) then downers .

My first intervention began shortly after experimenting with poppy pod tea and percocet . I had been having some pain issues (this was when my chronic pain was starting to make its debut and no one would listen , so i improvised.) a friends relative had died and i came into possession of 600 5/325 percocet . at first i was interested after taking 1-2 what more felt like . but i never got the "i have to take them or ill get sick crap" this lasted for about 4 weeks with still no dependancy or crap . i still had a solid job , performance was never lacking . grades were still good.

Well i came home after a long day . went to where they were and they were gone . My parents gave me the excuse they were "cleaning my room" and just happen to find them - BULL FUCKING SHIT- it was either flush them or they were going to call the Narcotics department and put who i got them from in trouble. and gave me the old their addictive , then heroin then needles talk.

I tired to explain but they wouldnt have any of it .

Intervention # 2 was by my friends when i had been up for 3 days blown out on a coke and meth binge with a friend , well i called a friend to vent some shit and he found me "more than odd" two days later they came by to see me and saw some shit lying around my room and a lightbulb vaporizer . (they thought i had been smoking crack cocaine) . I had to say out of the downtown bar and club scene for a good 3 months or i would lose them as friends .

Intervention # 3 . I ended up getting back into coke after a 8 month break when i was living downtown because i needed extra energy at work but again the pain was still continously around so i was also back into the pain medication ie morphine , oxycodone , oxycontin etc . well my problem got bad again when my grandfather died and my tolerance rose , i threatened to throw my best friend through the wall of our apartment if he wouldnt stop asking me what was wrong , i was also drinking quite a bit around this time .. This was an intervention on my own . I seperated myself from the bar scence and cocaine all together but the pain was still there.

Intervention # 4. My parents again noticed me continously running out 3 and 4 times a night , my cell phone going off all the time , staying out all night and decided to search my room again (which was total fucking bullshit considering i was 22 years old ) and found Valium and oxycontin . and 2 bags of coke (which i was dealing to support my street side pain management) . Again more threats of cops being called , me being kicked or rehab .

After this i made an appointment with my current doctor explaining what had been going on . got myself some Xrays and mris did what he wanted so that i wouldnt have to be in the position to hurt anyone else i knew anymore . and ive now been almost 2 years clean from anything but my medication .

Theres alot more to those 4 stories but then this will end up alot longer than it is now , so ill save you the trouble lol .
 
Welp, I could either move this to the Lounge, or to N&SA Social.

Ill save this from the lounge and move it to the N&SA forum.

So,

OD --> NS&A Social
 
I've done three so far. Of course their was a paid interventionist that pretends to be a family friend you somehow never met?

Basically when everyone goes soft and shit, this "friend" steps in and raises hell. Basically he told my father, either you go to rehab today, or I'm calling the fucking cops and have a restraining order on you so you can't come home to your wife and family.

Shit works everytime man. Of course he would relapse. My parents eventually got separated and I got stuck with 20 years of severe emotional abuse. YAY
 
gardenvariety said:
they tried. hahaha. failed miserably. my ma and step dad and all their friends were all standing in my room, and i woke up. my mom had thrown away 50 valium along with some excellent chronic. the most ridiculous part is that my mom decided to do it because she "caught" me doing whipits. i was outraged for several days.
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Man I thought I was the only person who knew about whipits aha.
mannn that shit is crazy haha.
 
Intervention (TV show)

A & E's Intervention is a good show. You get a closeup of addiction and enabling that you don't normally see, unless you're living it.

I'm not so sure that it tells us much about interventions, though. They come at the end of the show, and you don't see the full cycle of what happens. You get the emotional moments of family members and friends saying how much the addiction is breaking their hearts, their pocket books (enablers), and hurting the whole family. The person who is addicted almost always agrees to go to a rehab clinic... but it seems there is usually a tag message at the end of the show saying that they dropped out of treatment... and some number of months later they're using again.
 
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