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My best friend. She’s been struggling with addiction for some time now. When I first met her, she was the sweetest girl ever, and now, she’s struggling with her alcoholic and cocaine addiction. She’s lost lots of friends. And now she just got kicked out of her parents place, I’m talking to her daily, tryna help her, but I don’t understand addiction so idk if the words I’m saying are helpful, told her she can stay here for a night or two if it’s needed. Poor girl lost literally everything she had from the year I first met her

She's slowly killing every part of herself with cocaine

Thank you so much. I know this is an old video, but I had to turn to internet.

I’ve tried so hard to help my friend he’s now back in jail because he tested dirty now he’s going to a rehab for six months! I’m happy because he needs it!! ❤ happy healing everyone out there struggling!

I have already lost a friend to that and I am watching a friend do it again now i invite him for a drink and he sniffs every 5 minutes in like an hour he sniffed like 200 pounds worth of that shit

Hi, thank you so much for sharing your story and I’m wondering how are you doing now? ❤a friend of mine is going through this at the moment😢and just praying with all mine heart that the lord Jesus help him because I want to see him good. I Hope with the help of GOD you are doing really well and this is a part of your past. Much love and looking forward hearing from you.

I did cocaine and percs alcohol weed and cigarettes before never got addicted but give me a quesadilla and then I’m not so sure😭😭😭

I 100% get those obsessions that’ll last a whole hour then go away and come right back

Best advice as someone who’s lost there best best friend I could’ve talked to at anytime to heroin,,,, just help and be there try hard not to give cash but give support it’s definitely hard but if I could’ve done something different I would’ve been there I helped n tried up till the last month let her stay brought her places made food had good times but sadly less than a month later I lost her and everyone did too just barely 21yrs old life’s crazy and never give up on your true friends we’ll never get friends like them back, and be respectful of bad choices and slip ups and just be there I just didn’t know how close time was I miss her a tremendous amount

Don’t If I am going to destroy myself I’m going to do so it isn’t up to anybody to bully me over it thinking it will change things. Don’t add to the depression

*I broke my own heart into a million shreds... By so DEEPLY desperately totally loving: a fantasy, instead of the real man (with a trillion red flags).* Please, please, please, God, help me. I cannot bear the darkness any longer. He replaced me. Disposed of me. I WAS GARBAGE TO HIM. But there are some things I've learned to appreciate about myself (through all this), like: - my kind eyes - my gentle ways - my depth - my poetry - my insights - my writing - my magic - my sweet smile - my intelligence - my wisdom - my incredible ability to truly listen and to really hear - my softness - the bitch in me - the poet in me - when I love, I give EVERYTHING - my innocence - my sweet gentleness - my willingness - my openness - my discernment - my unfolding - my empathy - my talents - my heart - my beautiful magical self-healing wise miraculous gorgeous body... Please, God, help me remember these following things: - Not to try to attract people, but rather, to trust the universe... to trust life... That the right people will enter my life in the right moments... - To set boundaries... Philippians 4:6 - "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God..." Also, In the name of Jesus, I bind any and all evil spirits: of PTSD/terror/aloneness/loneliness/pain/panic/shame/grief/distress... And command you and demand you, in all authority given to me, by God... To leave me now! Go to the abyss and never return! In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Yeshua, my salvation! I DECLARE YOU Leave me: NOW!!! I 100% completely totally entirely renounce PTSD and I come into agreement, that any spirits associated with my pain, leave me right now and forevermore! This is a spiritual war. I have been an injured warrior. NOW I RECLAIM MY POWER! HALLELUJAH!! No weapon formed against me shall prosper! 🙏 ALSO: I KNOW GOD IS THE BEST MATCHMAKER AND HIS DIVINE TIMING IS ALWAYS PERFECT! I PRAY! I TRUST! I RECIEVE! TO GOD BE THE GLORY! 💙

I wish i’d watched this 2 months ago. I was helping a friend of mine through her own battles with addiction and homelessness and i let her stay at my place while she was cleaning up. I left town for a few days and when i returned, her attitude towards me changed and she was very argumentative. I had picked up a flu on my way back into town so was in no condition to argue or fight back or investigate, so i decided to not interact with her too much. Unbeknownst to me she had relapsed without telling me and I couldn’t catch up with her and check on her situation like i’d used to. A few days later she OD’d. ambulance got to her late and she lost too much brain function. She was legally deceased in 4 days. I met one of her exes while she was in the hospital and he told me she had been diagnosed with depression years and years ago. Something i wish id known or recognized. There were times i wish i had been just a but more patient, a bit kinder. I just didn’t know enough about addiction to know if it was the addiction doing the talking or something deeper. Please be nice to your loved ones if they’re suffering while they’re still here. They’ll say some of the damnedest things sometimes, but you’re better off putting up with it and knowing you truly gave it your all to help than having regrets and living with what-ifs.

Ngl I just got a lot of videos about what drugs feel like and psychedelic visualizers. To balance that I tried to find something like withdrawal stories or whatever really, more like people doing funny things while feeling weird then anything. But this video feels like it's made by someone who really knows and cares, so that's good stuff

I'm sorry but this is all no-brainer bs that's been in every single anti-drug commercial since the 80's. And some of what he said is misinformation. If somebody has a drug problem to the point where their own life and possibly the lives of others are in danger they can 100% be forced into state mandated rehab. It's a sin that it has to even get that far for them to have their freedom to use taken away. I unfortunately have extensive maybe even the most experience in the history of dealing with addicts. Mom, Dad uncles aunts cousins friends bosses hell my doctor probably has a problem. There's people out there that require constant monitoring. I pray in the future we can all have chips that will report when certain amounts of substances enter the body. There are people that just can never be trusted to do it on their own. And I know my freedom my freedom waaah cry me a f***** river. Would you rather have your parents brother sister best friend alive or dead? Happy and sober or miserable and addicted? Unfortunately a lot of these people and I used to be one myself for a couple of years unlike most people I brought myself to detox twice. Clean over 5 years and not looking back. It's a hell life and people are crazy for not realizing it always leads to more pain. You can't baby these people. Throw em all in rehabs and rehabs should work exactly like parole or probation. They get daily or weekly tests. Monitored too. They'll sneak in their buddys pee without thinking twice about it. Tough love is the only love for these people. Mind you this is once they've proven 3-5 times they can't do it on their own. Give them a couple of chances to do it alone but if they keep relapsing or trading one drug for the other they need tough love.

Idk if you'll see this since this is an older video. I've been dealing with trying to help out my best friend of over 13 years. She's been using for over a year now. At first it was casual / party based. She was with her ex that got highly addicted to coke and percs. She broke up with him because she couldn't handle who he was anymore. Fast forward 8 months, and she's been with a crack addict for about 5 months now. She enables him and in result has fallen into coke and other things she wont tell me about. I've tried countless times telling her how I feel and knowing she has so much more to give than being stuck in this addiction loop, and if she needs anything I will be there. But she would rather spend time with bad people that dont give a shit about her well being and enable her drug addictions. It's gotten to the point where even her family has messaged me about her "not being the same" anymore. Her brother knows about her drug problem and has tried countless times to her help too. He is at the point of giving up. I understand his feelings, because every day I hear a new story from her about the situations she gets herself into and it stresses me out to the point of crying. I wish she would listen, but I feel like im talking to a wall when I express any sort of emotion towards it. I've lost someone else to drugs because they weren't the same. Even my sister. and I have no patience for anyone else. I feel lost and like a horrible person but I am done with people in my life that are users and never give a crap about how it affects the people they love. I don't think I can continue being her friend anymore. She is not who I once knew. if you got this far, thank you for listening. I feel so trapped in my own emotions about this.

Great advice!! Hope you doing well now. When i focused on Yah's Word and started following Messiah my addictions fell away , my anxieties and worries disappeared, He took them away! He gave me a peace that surpasses all understanding. I am eternally grateful and pray for everyone going through hard times and that they open the door to The Most High who created them and Loves them no matter what they have done or do. Who will save them and give them a new heart, a fresh start. It's never too late. Sending you all Love, Strength and Courage to overcome. ❤

Wish I would’ve watched this years ago

It hurts me so much knowing there might be someone somewhere alone dealing with this pain. Hold a hand of your friend and talk to them. We are here

I am so sorry! Thank you for sharing

I hope you are still taking your steps and I hope you still have people around you who care and will listen to you. You are brave!

This is gold. Thank you so much. Just what I needed to help my friend

Ty for this information. 😊

Im watching here because I want to help my brother, How I can do to help him. Im praying he will help himself and agree to me that he needs to go to rehab. I am honestly broken hearted

Thank you today .for my London friend.

Thank you for helping me help my London friend.🕯️

He's not my friend, he's my father. He's drug addicted, we tried hard to quit him but it's no worth. I don't want to loose him, a little hope is left but still it is. Please pray for my dad to quit drugs and became healthy again.

I have this problem with some of my friends right now. ☹️ im only in 7th grade currently and it hurts so badly to see people you’ve known for a year change to be someone who you don’t even recognize anymore and kids my age are so peer pressured by drugs in order to have fun or coping mechanism. we're still so young it’s gut wrenching. horrible and them joking about drugs and there’s really nothing I could do, I’ve talked about it to some of them and said they would quit but never did. I’m glad though that I have other people as friends who also acknowledge it and trying to help aswell. we are still so young, immature and it’s so common in my school it sucks, you can never get your childhood back so seeing people you know not caring about it, it’s horrible. I know you can’t change people who don’t wanna be changed but these are people who I care about and they need help and someone to talk to. they’re encouraged by adults and other friends around them so it’s even harder. I’m not even that close to them as others but this video helped so much and I just wanna say thank you.

Really beautiful video. Thank you.

I have a family member and friend that we are trying to help, she is struggling with injecting meth. She was on probation for some other things she did. She is now in jail for 120 days. We have her ex husband in a property we own for free. She came to live here because we thought that her ex husband wanted to help her. I talk to her a lot. She has BPD and I didnt want to be pushy with a relationship. But I am always here for her. I ask how she is feeling because I do love her. Maybe I need to be more initiative of a relationship because at one point she thought she lost me. Before she went to jail, I came in on a conversation where she was talking to a friend I thought was sober and helping her, but she said to him, now that Im not going to jail, we can go get the goods. She came back with an abcess on her arm and randomly made a scene saying she bumped it and had a welt. Then her ex husband covered for her and said she gets them all the time. I knew it was a miss mark. I was angry that her ex husband covered for her and Im afraid he is taking her to get drugs. She lied to me when we talked to her about it, which I understand. Its a hard thing to overcome. But I just dont know that she has hope for a better life, and I just have no clue if she wants help or if she just feels hopeless. I know she is ashamed. But, I fear when she gets out of jail she will live with her ex husband who will just enable this. So Im honestly thinking of evicting him and letting her and her boyfriend who sincerely wants to be sober live in the trailer. But they both dont have lisences. The boyfriend is living with us and helping my husband with his business and doesnt want to leave her, which I totally understand. I guess, I just think she wont get better if she lives with her ex husband who is enabling her and taking her to get drugs and covering for her. I dont think she wants to go to a rehabilitation center. Do you have any thoughts on this?

Thank you for your story

Confront your friend with love but be firm. I wish I had pushed my friend harder to seek treatment and now she is dead. I spent years trying to meet her where she was at but unfortunately we don’t live in the same world we used to. Fentanyl isn’t a joke or something that “other” people overdose on. I don’t think we have the luxury to leave anything off the table, speak truth to them and get them into treatment by whatever legal means you can.

this is amazingly accurate. it's important to note how much we need "addicts" in our society. By definition it's someone who will give up "normal" behaviors for whatever the addiction might be making their quality of life "lesser" than before, which hate to say but sort of includes (basically) the entire world.. A n y t h i n g can be an addiction. People don't realize Shopping can be an addiction. trying to micro-managae your children, needing to be the center of attention can be an addiction, needing to be right, literally anything. And we're all looking at eachother because it's more addicting than looking at ourselves and how we can be better examples of well-rounded individuals.

Exactly a week ago the same thing happened between me and my best friend/unofficial boyfriend. We've been sort of together for 1.5 years. A little more than friends with benefits. I've always been his high school crush. In that 1,5 time there were already a few ups and downs regarding whether we make it official or not. in the beginning I found it very difficult myself and always agreed with friends with benefits first. That already made it difficult for him, but I only saw the positive in it because I needed time. After a while I asked about it and he had already suppressed his feelings and could not suddenly open his wall again. I gave it time then, of course it hurt me because I had created it a bit myself. Later another conversation that I really wanted a relationship with him. He said he was allergic to the word relationship. After a few conversations like this it broke my heart every time. It made me insecure, often doubted, but I didn't give up. At one point we had such a fight that it was almost over in terms of friendship. Well I've always been one of the guys myself and I'm a super enthusiastic person also in terms of how I talk etc. Yes I made the mistake of going out to chill with a guy once, and my mistake that it was too flirty used to be. Never got to the point of meeting, almost just the contact disappeared. In retrospect I was happy and already regretted what I was doing. I was just super angry & insecure. Last weekend it got completely out of hand, I met up with an old colleague (never my intention for more) believe me! Just really to catch up and I even thought he would ask me to come back to work where we worked together because there is not enough staff everywhere. We drank to much and I had a black out. Finally when I cycled home with great difficulty I arrived at my flat and that kind of more than a friend was already at my flat. I arrived completely crying and because I already had such a blackout and too much drunk I just thought I had kissed (is not so and has been confirmed by that other ex colleague). Obviously that guy is all mad and by questions. I accidentally said something that just wasn't true. This escalated into a fierce argument. Now he had sniffed all evening, I k.o in bed because of the emotions and he has been going through my mobile all night. He has read everything with every acquaintance I know and what I will say I have always been one of the guys. Yes, I also read that conversation with that one guy I almost agreed with. Am I sorry I didn't delete it "no". First, I feel super guilty, but second, we've never had an official relationship. Now he doesn't believe anything anymore and that I flirt with all men and that I've done everything with who knows. It's not true, that night with that ex colleague nothing happened in terms of kissing. Because I had such a blackout, he told me that we got into a discussion because he didn't want me to cycle home like that, pushed him away and left. But that boy doesn't believe me at all anymore. Now I'm the worst thing that happened to him you name it. He uses coke every weekend and has said something about it several times. And sometimes during the week also including drinks. He says he has it under control, but I know it's a problem. Now I have personally taken some distance because I myself am talking to a psychologist to help myself with traumas etc etc. I have stopped smoking weed completely on my own since May 13th. So I'm busy with my own stuff. Now he does not want to admit in his behavior towards me and how he sends me messages that there is also a mental issue with him. I feel powerless. I want to help him, but I also have to help myself first. Now he hates me, but looking at himself in a mirror he can't say that this really isn't good for him and all his problems he already had. Sorry for this long message! But I'm distraught! I love him so much. All I wanted was to be with him! :(

Wow thank you so so much for this this gave me so much validation and hope!!

Thank you for your video. I’m helping my new girlfriend get through her recovery. It’s hard seeing her struggle because of me. Meth is all she has known for the last 13 yrs. But I will be here for her no matter what

Subscribing. Thank you 🙏🏽

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One of my best friends is addicted to huffing air duster... It's so hard to help him and I need help

I should of gone 2013

How did u decide which rehab to go to?

I have a food addiction. I binge and as a consequence I feel calmer. When I'm lonely or have not been with people for a time the urge to binge comes back. It gets stronger and stronger, but if I resist it lessens. Sometimes I give in to it. Then i feel ashamed and guilty. It's a horrible addiction.

What do you do if your friend does not acknowledge the danger of using? He said he will not be able to stay awake to work thru his night shift ...and have enough energy without it?

Very good advice, thank you for doing it

I have a drug problem, when I drink I need a bag but then I go mental well…it’s hit or miss. I lose control, get aggressive with strangers and attacking friends when they touch me, forgetting who they are and my own morals, being dragged out of clubs, can’t see or think straight and sometimes just with drinking especially out in an unfamiliar setting. I am anxious, I am struggling and everyone is running away from me :( I feel so isolated and alone

Ty!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for sharing! I needed to hear this. Blessings.

Do they just help you get sober or do they teach you how to be happy or even just contempt while sober?

I hate this channel because of him. He’s so trash. Why is your 5head so tight dude

Thank you for making this excellent video!

You are so strong. Thank you for being here, Not Not Normal guy!