Xorkoth
Bluelight Crew
Damn that sounds right up your alley! Congrats man!
Oh I've been trying. His family has tried everything also. I talked about this in TDS some too, and I don't really want to clog this thread up, but he lives 1000 miles away. In his state/locality, you can't forcibly incarcerate, section or commit to treatment (except if he was arrested for a crime), so he has to voluntarily accept help. His parents were told that if they tried to forcibly take him in against his will, and he pressed charges, they could be arrested for kidnapping. And since he thinks his parents are "in on it" and he has sent numerous death threats to his mom via texts, no one wants to go there. His parents have tried many times, they go visit him regularly despite living 500 miles away themselves. His parents and I have communicated on many occasions to try to coordinate our efforts. He's threatened suicide multiple times and we've called the police, another time when he was saying he was gonna go shoot some people up (said he had a gun). The city he lives in has a HUGE meth epidemic and his parents say the authorities/systems are way overburdened. They had social workers show up when he got evicted relatively recently, but he didn't accept help nor did he do anything to get arrested. We told the police that him saying he was going to shoot some people up (on the anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre no less) is sitting right there on facebook, they didn't even do anything about it. It's crazy. It's one giant cycle of psychosis, and making his loved ones feel guilty for not giving him money. He swears up, down, left and right he's not doing meth anymore and all this stuff is real and makes me feel guilty when I don't believe him. I try to limit my engagement into his whole thing because it never does any good and I need to protect my own emotions. I honestly don't know what else I can do and that fact, and all the trauma from it so far, has been really hard for me to deal with. I worry about him all the time and it has an effect on my ability to feel good (along with worries about other loved ones). I'm exhausted by it. At this point we all hope he gets arrested so he'll be forced to detox and will hopefully realize he needs help, or even be sent to the psych ward for a while.
Yeah me too. I know someone who also had a drug induced psychosis a few years ago and went to the same hospital and they really helped him and didn't look down on him because it was drug related. So that gave me some confidence that this was the right choice. I am not sure what I would have done without knowing his story.
Looking back on it now it's pretty clear that I went into full paranoia mode. For example I thought the elderly woman living in the apartment above me must be in on it, having some kind of machine sending mind altering signals down at me. The most disturbing stuff was dissociating from my own body and experiencing normal body functions as somebody doing something to me (which the doctors told me is pretty common with psychosis). Like hearing some noise and feeling as if something is poking into my ear. That's also were the sexual/rapey stuff came into play. I'll spare you the details...
FUCKIN Hell Mary.
No wonder --- if the law enforcement won't even pull him in on public death threats (*in Iowa that would be Terrorism ) --- I see where you are stuck.
Indeed. .. you'll just have to pray (or however you choose to send good energy his way ) and Hope.
I'm so sorry.
I had my own place for a grand total of one month, oldest friend was my roommate. I woke up to a house full of people snorting cocaine three times and he was doing tons of pain pills in between all while on probation. We talked about it and I thought he got the message that the shit had to stop or at the very least slow down. I basically explained that I didn't want these people in the fucking house and he needed to learn how to say "NO". Well a week later I go to bed early while his company is over and wake up to a gun in my face. Got the pleasure of sitting in the floor of my room while I watched the local heroin dealer go through everything I own looking for drugs I somehow stole while I was asleep. What really happened was he'd snorted up a bunch he got on the front and was trying to pin the loss on me. My friend didn't do shit to help and even got in the car with the guy after he'd spent 2 hours tearing through everything I owned. I packed my shit up and got the fuck out. Thankfully I didn't lose anything important to me, other than the friendship.![]()