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I am going through this with my son. He is 23. He wants to go to rehab. He hates not being able to stay away from it. It has him hooked. Meth is the devil.
3 months clean from ice about the same age as your son this battle is constant your son will pull through give him time and don’t judge any substance downgrade is a win I’m still weaning off alcohol and weed and I’m clean from cocaine for a month if I could speak for your son we are ashamed and sorry I wish the best for you and your boy
He is now in jail and it wasn't from drugs, it was drinking but the drugs have destroyed his mind. He is like a scitzophrenic when he has any substance abuse. He is doing ok. I pray every day that he stays clean when he gets out.
This movie has changed my life. Made me realise what I've made my parents go through and how I've absolutely decimated relationships. After more than 15 years of blackout drinking, I'm finally a recovering alcoholic. Almost a year sober. One day at a time is what I think seems right at the moment. As the late great Mathew Perry used to say, "addiction wants to get you alone and eventually will kill you." Too scared on this journey but there's always hope. Always!
107 days sober myself brother. I was abused by a family member and repressed the memories. I took it out on my mom off all all people. Someone who was there for me day after day and she caught the flack for my bullshiz. Everyone else saw me for who I was, a scumbag and left me (understandably). I even physically assaulted her one night after she tried to take my money and it is a black stain on my soul forever, something I will NEVER be able to wash away. She was the only one who stuck by me and when she forgave for everything at the drop of a hat me it broke me. But yet again she was there and helped me build myself up again into a better person that she deserves to have in her life. Not some drunk $h!thead wastrel that could suck all the happiness out of a room without even trying.
@@MrAdamske know that you are important and i'm so proud of you mate. You are doing great work and to top it off, a mother who is with you in this fight no matter what. Stay well. Cheers!
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour." - Gabor Mate
I struggled with addiction in my teens and went to rehab in 2010. This movie captures so much accurate emotion and pain that comes from addiction. This movie truly makes me feel my father’s pain that he went through all those years ago. If you have an addiction to drugs - please reach out to those who love you. It could save your life.
I could barely get through it. I did NOT want my parents to watch it because it reminded me of all the crap I put them through. Still struggling, but they dont have to worry about it cause im out of the house.
@@johnfisher8401 to your parents you are the most valuable, most lovely thing in the world. Moving out of the house doesn't change any of that, and it doesn't change how much they think and worry about you. If you won't stop for your own sake, then at least try doing it for theirs
@@squeakycamp207 I mean im sober now, doesnt stop the struggle. You cant do it for someone else, thats what a lot of addicts get wrong. You have to do it for yourself and for God. I only got better once I found Christ.
this is tough....you do everything right for your kid and when he becomes addicted, it's easy to wonder what you did wrong as a parent. Like in anything your child ever did, you just be there for them the best you can.
I lived this. My son still has set backs. But, not as bad as 10 years ago. He's 31 now. We've survived so much trauma. I've always been curious about this movie. I started to watch it one time but it was too real. I just watched this entire clip. And, it brought tears to my eyes. It's spot on. Fantastic acting. People cannot really understand unless they've lived this.
This is one of the best movies! I pray to God that everyone who is trying to recover DO recover. It’s so hard for someone to help an addict. It comes with all kind of emotions but I know it’s not impossible.
i've lost many friends to addiction. there is a part of me that gives them leeway because addiction is difficult and i understand that it takes over. there is a part of me that understands how selfish it is. to just check out of your own life, abandon everyone who helped you and cared about you. some people prefer a homeless life without responsibility or obligation. some people want to do their own thing. my boundary is that i'm not going to be treated like an asshole for trying to help an addict who wants to be an asshole.
I love this movie. Gives me perspective of how my father felt. My father is my hero. My father is my support. My father has shown me absolute unconditional love. My father may bury me. My father has shown me how to be a father. My father gave me the strength to beg for another day even as the day has been worse than the one before. I claw and crawl for tomorrow. My father is a saint never perfect but always there.
The abuse I endured as child resulted in addiction and mental health issues…. It’s tough when you know your father wants to help but you don’t know how he can…
The part of this that breaks my heart so much more than any other speech or meeting or video I've watched is that... My father lost the love he had for me the moment I first opened up truthfully about being a painkiller junkie (his words not mine) and stealing out of his wallet to fuel the addiction (at that point it had been maybe close to 1000$. So not too much but definitely not a little). I didn't have a father like the one Steven Carell plays in this movie even though my genealogy or family line is riddled with addiction. My grandmother and 6/7 of her siblings were all addicts and ended up homeless or killing themselves with booze. Cousins, aunts, uncles and both sides of my family are the same as well. Out of an extended family of maybe 80-100 people, 70% of them battle or have battled with addiction. You'd think that my father would judge me less because of his genes but nope. I'm just the scumbag junkie that drained some of his savings (parents are upper middle class so the amount of money isn't as significant as, let's say, a lower class income). I needed him most at the times when he insulted and thought little of me. Wish I had a father like Steve Carell in this movie.
Just based on your comment, I'm assuming you've done some form of recovery or treatment. If you have, then I'm sure the people who helped you told you this, but I'm going to just in case they didn't. Your father is carrying his own burdens, and that is why he is reacting that way. If I were to speculate I would say he is ashamed of his family's struggle with addiction, and he feels that the shame is on him too. You struggling with addiction represents that shame, plus his failure as a father. You struggling implies that either he failed as a father, or that addiction isn't about a lack of character but is something genetic. If it's the latter, than that means his family aren't weak or flawed, they just got screwed by fate. And if that is true then he can't look down on them like he probably does. Of course, you deserve a father who loves you unconditionally. But the man who raised you might not be up for the job right now. He needs to be in therapy (we all do), but he may never reach that point. My advice for moving forward, is that there is the family we are born into, and the family we choose. People talk about blood being the end all be all, but to me, it's just biology. You will meet someone who can be the father you didn't have (especially if you're in AA or some sort of recovery environment). One day, you might have the chance to be a father to someone else. And you can do it the right way, so some other little boy can have what you should have had.
His dad is doing anything possible to save his son ! Heartbreaking 💔 The son has to want to get clean !! The son has to get to know himself without the use of drugs !! The son is afraid of himself so he uses drugs to cope with himself!! Residential treatment is the best solution ! Personally I know ! God bless ❤
Treatment helps, but you can get clean without it. But yeah, you're right about this. The person has to want it and want it bad. And if I can come up with the magic words that makes an alcohol or granatic, put the plug in the jug and live One Day at a Time and deal with things, if I could come up with a magic word. That would make a schizophrenic person comply with mads and can help, if I come up with the magic words to do any of those things I could write a book and make tens of millions of dollars, it's a great mystery called grace. Add, I've seen people get sober off the street, living under a piece of plastic in the woods. I've seen people od and die. Having been to multiple $100000 rehabs, a good college is being the children of doctors and lawyers, so grace is a mysterious and undeserved gift out of nowhere from the universe, often unexpected and often unexplainable grace found me. And might grace, find anybody who's dealing with this and any family? Because I know it tore, my family up. I'm the only one through the generations that I know of that got sober. My dad was an abusive a****** He didn't have a whole lot of friends in the world and my brother committed suicide. This is not a good scorecard for the males. In my family and my sister's devoid of empathy. But hopefully I give the ancestors peace, it's the least I can do
THE ABSOLUTE WORST PART OF BEING AN ADDICT IS THE CRIPPLING AMOUNT OF REGRET YOU HAVE KNOWING YOU WASTED SO MANY YEARS OF YOUR LIFE! YOU MISSED OUT ON SO MANY SPECIAL MOMENTS AND MEMORIES WITH YOUR FAMILY, FREINDS, ECT! YOU CHOSE DRUGS OVER EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING AND NOW YOU ARE ALL ALONE AND IT'S TOO LATE! 💔😭
Or you can choose to stop a choice made by people and then cry that it’s addiction. I had a horrible childhood and father walked out. I have done drugs but never stop working or berthing else for drugs. So tell me drugs are addicting? For some or for all? Addicts are weak people who choose not to handle their lives like the rest of us.
It’s even worse when you live by yourself. My friends who live with parents always say they can’t wait to move. I always reply with its like a kid saying they can’t wait to grow up! You don’t know just how good you’ve got it till it becomes a memory.
I've been an addict most of my life, but I know one thing for certain that Jesus is there every time i stumble with open arms just like this dad in the movie, an that is something I have to keep adjusting too, but I'm grateful.
Гениальные, харизматичные, искренние души. Актёрское мастерство высший пилотаж. Привет из России. Не смотря на натянутые отношения между нашими странами всё равно люблю вас и верю, что здравый смысл победит ❤
On a personal, without any addiction, I can relate as a bipolar sufferer with all the package it come with; whether its cyclothomania, anxiety, panics attack, anhedonia etc 😢
im in a similar position in my life. ive been drinking daily for the past couple years. i moved back home to live with my parents but things aren’t getting better. ive been trying to do things that are good for me but i just can’t get it together. my ex left me over a month ago and we still text. i want to be better for her and my family, but i just can’t.
You can do it. Check out AA meetings in your hometown. You may get something out of it. You’re not alone, I never thought I’d see my way out of that darkness but I did after making the decision to change and get sober. If you really want sobriety, it’s attainable. It won’t be easy, but it’s possible. I believe in you
Nobody is coming to save us man. I decided to quit two months ago. I feel a lot better and the cravings are slowly going away. I did it for my family. Take care.
Mike had always been a good kid-quiet, thoughtful, someone who kept to himself but had this odd charm about him. I remember the first time he picked up a guitar, how he'd sit in his room for hours, strumming and dreaming. He had this future ahead of him, or so I thought. But things shifted when he turned eighteen, and the world started to feel too big, too fast for him. It wasn’t long before he found the wrong crowd, and before I knew it, he’d fallen into something I couldn't pull him out of. Meth. It was a slow burn at first, one pipe, then another. Then the stories of him staying out late, looking strung out, coming home with his eyes wide and his speech slurred. We’d have those conversations, the ones where I begged him to stop, to think about his future. But each time, he’d look at me like he didn’t hear a word I said, like his mind was already somewhere else, somewhere I couldn’t follow. He couldn't put the pipe down. We tried everything-rehab, family meetings, even moving away for a fresh start. But nothing worked. It wasn't until one night, after a long stretch of silence between us, that I found him again. I went looking for him, knowing that, at this point, he was probably in the worst place he could be. Las Vegas. It wasn’t where he belonged, but there he was, swallowed up by the neon lights and the 24-hour chaos. He’d gotten himself tangled up with people who didn’t care about him, or anyone for that matter. People who just needed a quick fix, a fast high, and someone else to burn along the way. I found him in a rundown parking lot, not far from the Strip. His car, that old Toyota Corolla, was parked under a flickering streetlamp, the same busted taillight still hanging off the back. He was slumped in the driver's seat, the door cracked open just enough to see the pipe resting in his lap, still warm from use. The faint smell of chemicals clung to the air around him, a reminder of everything that had led up to this point. Mike’s face was pale, his lips cracked and dry. His body seemed small in the driver’s seat, a shell of the person he used to be. I walked over slowly, my heart sinking with every step, but by the time I reached the car, it was too late. His eyes were wide open, unblinking, staring straight ahead into nothing. The pipe was still in his hand, but there was no more smoke. Just silence. I didn’t know what to say. There was nothing left to say. He’d been chasing something, some high, some moment of escape from whatever demons he couldn’t outrun. But in the end, all he’d found was a parking lot in Vegas and an empty breath. I knelt down beside him, hoping in some part of me that maybe, just maybe, he’d wake up. That somehow, this wasn’t the end. But it was. Mike couldn’t put the pipe down, and in the end, the pipe had taken everything. And in the silence of that parking lot, the neon lights flickering in the distance, all I could do was whisper his name, hoping that wherever he was now, he’d finally find peace.
Codependency is what the family is doing ie supporting his addiction, and they could end up loving him to death. His only hope is finding other addicts with problems similar to his and by attendance at 12 Step meetings.
“Tweak” was a better book. Speaking personally? Meth sucks. Don’t do it. I used it every day for almost ten years. I ended up on the streets with nothing.
So now hollywood is making drama about druguse in the US? I thought they only did "it´s cool to smoke pot and do drugs" backed by talkshows like Conan and that laughing squirrel.
I've been distantly communicated with the stepson who I went to war on behalf of 15 years ago, we broke our deals with the court. And he was supposed to clean up and of course he wasn't ready. He's been through multiple meat grinders. He's now, dear God, almost 40. Finally, he's checked into rehab on his own. Let's hope it works. I'd like to see a happy end of this story because I'm expecting that other phone call any day and have been for a long time. I think he's run out of road and he knows it. I think he looked death in the eyes and has not decided to go. That way, man, he's pretty beat up. I do believe this is his last chance. Unfortunately, the story repeats itself over and over again
This is amazing!
Thank you, got emotional putting it together awhile back.
I am going through this with my son. He is 23. He wants to go to rehab. He hates not being able to stay away from it. It has him hooked. Meth is the devil.
I wish the both of you the best. I'm sorry your going through that, stay strong ❣
3 months clean from ice about the same age as your son this battle is constant your son will pull through give him time and don’t judge any substance downgrade is a win I’m still weaning off alcohol and weed and I’m clean from cocaine for a month if I could speak for your son we are ashamed and sorry I wish the best for you and your boy
Currently anticipating withdrawals... I'll do better this time
Your son regrets it, surely he is sorry
He is now in jail and it wasn't from drugs, it was drinking but the drugs have destroyed his mind. He is like a scitzophrenic when he has any substance abuse. He is doing ok. I pray every day that he stays clean when he gets out.
Congrats on being clean. ❤🙏
This movie has changed my life. Made me realise what I've made my parents go through and how I've absolutely decimated relationships. After more than 15 years of blackout drinking, I'm finally a recovering alcoholic. Almost a year sober. One day at a time is what I think seems right at the moment. As the late great Mathew Perry used to say, "addiction wants to get you alone and eventually will kill you." Too scared on this journey but there's always hope. Always!
107 days sober myself brother. I was abused by a family member and repressed the memories. I took it out on my mom off all all people. Someone who was there for me day after day and she caught the flack for my bullshiz. Everyone else saw me for who I was, a scumbag and left me (understandably). I even physically assaulted her one night after she tried to take my money and it is a black stain on my soul forever, something I will NEVER be able to wash away. She was the only one who stuck by me and when she forgave for everything at the drop of a hat me it broke me. But yet again she was there and helped me build myself up again into a better person that she deserves to have in her life. Not some drunk $h!thead wastrel that could suck all the happiness out of a room without even trying.
@@MrAdamske know that you are important and i'm so proud of you mate. You are doing great work and to top it off, a mother who is with you in this fight no matter what. Stay well. Cheers!
Don't let one day, one moment destroy the incredible work you are doing. Thank you for letting me read this.
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour." - Gabor Mate
I struggled with addiction in my teens and went to rehab in 2010. This movie captures so much accurate emotion and pain that comes from addiction.
This movie truly makes me feel my father’s pain that he went through all those years ago.
If you have an addiction to drugs - please reach out to those who love you. It could save your life.
I could barely get through it. I did NOT want my parents to watch it because it reminded me of all the crap I put them through.
Still struggling, but they dont have to worry about it cause im out of the house.
@@johnfisher8401 to your parents you are the most valuable, most lovely thing in the world. Moving out of the house doesn't change any of that, and it doesn't change how much they think and worry about you. If you won't stop for your own sake, then at least try doing it for theirs
@@squeakycamp207 I mean im sober now, doesnt stop the struggle. You cant do it for someone else, thats what a lot of addicts get wrong. You have to do it for yourself and for God. I only got better once I found Christ.
This is one of the very best movies I've ever watched. TC is absolutely brilliant. It showcases what addition really is.
Addition is really beautiful. I mean without it how would we….. gain?
I used to be hooked on math too, but luckily it's history now.
this movie never fails to make me cry, love this video
this is tough....you do everything right for your kid and when he becomes addicted, it's easy to wonder what you did wrong as a parent. Like in anything your child ever did, you just be there for them the best you can.
I lived this. My son still has set backs. But, not as bad as 10 years ago. He's 31 now. We've survived so much trauma. I've always been curious about this movie. I started to watch it one time but it was too real. I just watched this entire clip. And, it brought tears to my eyes. It's spot on. Fantastic acting. People cannot really understand unless they've lived this.
This is one of the best movies! I pray to God that everyone who is trying to recover DO recover. It’s so hard for someone to help an addict. It comes with all kind of emotions but I know it’s not impossible.
i've lost many friends to addiction. there is a part of me that gives them leeway because addiction is difficult and i understand that it takes over. there is a part of me that understands how selfish it is. to just check out of your own life, abandon everyone who helped you and cared about you. some people prefer a homeless life without responsibility or obligation. some people want to do their own thing. my boundary is that i'm not going to be treated like an asshole for trying to help an addict who wants to be an asshole.
11 years - Jan 20th 2014. So grateful to be alive. Heroin/Meth/Alcoholism. Thank you God and AA ❤
I love this movie. Gives me perspective of how my father felt. My father is my hero. My father is my support. My father has shown me absolute unconditional love. My father may bury me. My father has shown me how to be a father. My father gave me the strength to beg for another day even as the day has been worse than the one before. I claw and crawl for tomorrow. My father is a saint never perfect but always there.
thank you so much for making this.
thank you for watching!
The abuse I endured as child resulted in addiction and mental health issues…. It’s tough when you know your father wants to help but you don’t know how he can…
life is hard enough guys. dont do that stuff. you don't need it. and it will do nothing but steal happiness from the future.
The part of this that breaks my heart so much more than any other speech or meeting or video I've watched is that... My father lost the love he had for me the moment I first opened up truthfully about being a painkiller junkie (his words not mine) and stealing out of his wallet to fuel the addiction (at that point it had been maybe close to 1000$. So not too much but definitely not a little). I didn't have a father like the one Steven Carell plays in this movie even though my genealogy or family line is riddled with addiction. My grandmother and 6/7 of her siblings were all addicts and ended up homeless or killing themselves with booze. Cousins, aunts, uncles and both sides of my family are the same as well. Out of an extended family of maybe 80-100 people, 70% of them battle or have battled with addiction. You'd think that my father would judge me less because of his genes but nope. I'm just the scumbag junkie that drained some of his savings (parents are upper middle class so the amount of money isn't as significant as, let's say, a lower class income). I needed him most at the times when he insulted and thought little of me. Wish I had a father like Steve Carell in this movie.
I wish I had the father in "Call me by your name" but we move on. Life is too short for the unhappiness of others.
Just based on your comment, I'm assuming you've done some form of recovery or treatment. If you have, then I'm sure the people who helped you told you this, but I'm going to just in case they didn't.
Your father is carrying his own burdens, and that is why he is reacting that way. If I were to speculate I would say he is ashamed of his family's struggle with addiction, and he feels that the shame is on him too. You struggling with addiction represents that shame, plus his failure as a father. You struggling implies that either he failed as a father, or that addiction isn't about a lack of character but is something genetic. If it's the latter, than that means his family aren't weak or flawed, they just got screwed by fate. And if that is true then he can't look down on them like he probably does.
Of course, you deserve a father who loves you unconditionally. But the man who raised you might not be up for the job right now. He needs to be in therapy (we all do), but he may never reach that point. My advice for moving forward, is that there is the family we are born into, and the family we choose. People talk about blood being the end all be all, but to me, it's just biology. You will meet someone who can be the father you didn't have (especially if you're in AA or some sort of recovery environment). One day, you might have the chance to be a father to someone else. And you can do it the right way, so some other little boy can have what you should have had.
His dad is doing anything possible to save his son ! Heartbreaking 💔 The son has to want to get clean !! The son has to get to know himself without the use of drugs !! The son is afraid of himself so he uses drugs to cope with himself!! Residential treatment is the best solution ! Personally I know ! God bless ❤
Treatment helps, but you can get clean without it. But yeah, you're right about this. The person has to want it and want it bad. And if I can come up with the magic words that makes an alcohol or granatic, put the plug in the jug and live One Day at a Time and deal with things, if I could come up with a magic word. That would make a schizophrenic person comply with mads and can help, if I come up with the magic words to do any of those things I could write a book and make tens of millions of dollars, it's a great mystery called grace. Add, I've seen people get sober off the street, living under a piece of plastic in the woods. I've seen people od and die. Having been to multiple $100000 rehabs, a good college is being the children of doctors and lawyers, so grace is a mysterious and undeserved gift out of nowhere from the universe, often unexpected and often unexplainable grace found me. And might grace, find anybody who's dealing with this and any family? Because I know it tore, my family up. I'm the only one through the generations that I know of that got sober. My dad was an abusive a****** He didn't have a whole lot of friends in the world and my brother committed suicide. This is not a good scorecard for the males. In my family and my sister's devoid of empathy.
But hopefully I give the ancestors peace, it's the least I can do
THE ABSOLUTE WORST PART OF BEING AN ADDICT IS THE CRIPPLING AMOUNT OF REGRET YOU HAVE KNOWING YOU WASTED SO MANY YEARS OF YOUR LIFE! YOU MISSED OUT ON SO MANY SPECIAL MOMENTS AND MEMORIES WITH YOUR FAMILY, FREINDS, ECT! YOU CHOSE DRUGS OVER EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING AND NOW YOU ARE ALL ALONE AND IT'S TOO LATE! 💔😭
Or you can choose to stop a choice made by people and then cry that it’s addiction. I had a horrible childhood and father walked out. I have done drugs but never stop working or berthing else for drugs. So tell me drugs are addicting? For some or for all?
Addicts are weak people who choose not to handle their lives like the rest of us.
@player24361 I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO SAY?!?
@ addicts are weak people who choose not to face their problems and hide behind a drug.
@ and typing in all caps is considered yelling when writing, just to make you aware.
@@player24361 NOT ALWAYS. IT CAN ALSO BE READ AS PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT I'M SAYING. 🤷🏻♂️
im not in the mood to cry right now
It’s even worse when you live by yourself. My friends who live with parents always say they can’t wait to move. I always reply with its like a kid saying they can’t wait to grow up! You don’t know just how good you’ve got it till it becomes a memory.
The Office was on the TV when I put this on and I can't believe how polarizing Steve Carell is. Timothy Chamalet is a treasure as well
Весь фильм гениальный, а сцена в кафе потрясающая.
2 fantastic actors
Love you father. For saving me, and always believing on me.
I've been an addict most of my life, but I know one thing for certain that Jesus is there every time i stumble with open arms just like this dad in the movie, an that is something I have to keep adjusting too, but I'm grateful.
seems like jesus hasn't helped that much if you're still addicted. try quitting.
@ Jesus loves you!
Гениальные, харизматичные, искренние души. Актёрское мастерство высший пилотаж. Привет из России. Не смотря на натянутые отношения между нашими странами всё равно люблю вас и верю, что здравый смысл победит ❤
On a personal, without any addiction, I can relate as a bipolar sufferer with all the package it come with; whether its cyclothomania, anxiety, panics attack, anhedonia etc 😢
I remember reading the book when it came out, I was probably in middle school. Swore I'd never be addicted. Yet, my vices came to me all the same
I my self is a drug addict and this hit me deep when he said ur suffocating me
Never did any drugs but this movie tells me it's hell being an drug addict.
Hope you are sober now
The author of the book this is based on, Nic Sheff, spoke at my school. Did a Q&A and stuff, was cool.
One of my favorite movies.
Sublime.....................
I wish I had of been this devoted to my boy
As a father, this is heartbreaking ❤️🩹
Lost my only daughter at 26 to a fentanyl overdose. A nightmare of a life
im in a similar position in my life. ive been drinking daily for the past couple years. i moved back home to live with my parents but things aren’t getting better. ive been trying to do things that are good for me but i just can’t get it together. my ex left me over a month ago and we still text. i want to be better for her and my family, but i just can’t.
Chek out Jordan peterson
@@tobiasthorkilsen1386YES!
You can do it. Check out AA meetings in your hometown. You may get something out of it. You’re not alone, I never thought I’d see my way out of that darkness but I did after making the decision to change and get sober. If you really want sobriety, it’s attainable. It won’t be easy, but it’s possible. I believe in you
Nothing changes if nothing changes. It’s a constant struggle we need to endure and face head on brother! Time to own up, you and me both! 🫂
Nobody is coming to save us man. I decided to quit two months ago. I feel a lot better and the cravings are slowly going away. I did it for my family.
Take care.
Mike had always been a good kid-quiet, thoughtful, someone who kept to himself but had this odd charm about him. I remember the first time he picked up a guitar, how he'd sit in his room for hours, strumming and dreaming. He had this future ahead of him, or so I thought. But things shifted when he turned eighteen, and the world started to feel too big, too fast for him. It wasn’t long before he found the wrong crowd, and before I knew it, he’d fallen into something I couldn't pull him out of.
Meth. It was a slow burn at first, one pipe, then another. Then the stories of him staying out late, looking strung out, coming home with his eyes wide and his speech slurred. We’d have those conversations, the ones where I begged him to stop, to think about his future. But each time, he’d look at me like he didn’t hear a word I said, like his mind was already somewhere else, somewhere I couldn’t follow.
He couldn't put the pipe down.
We tried everything-rehab, family meetings, even moving away for a fresh start. But nothing worked. It wasn't until one night, after a long stretch of silence between us, that I found him again. I went looking for him, knowing that, at this point, he was probably in the worst place he could be.
Las Vegas. It wasn’t where he belonged, but there he was, swallowed up by the neon lights and the 24-hour chaos. He’d gotten himself tangled up with people who didn’t care about him, or anyone for that matter. People who just needed a quick fix, a fast high, and someone else to burn along the way.
I found him in a rundown parking lot, not far from the Strip. His car, that old Toyota Corolla, was parked under a flickering streetlamp, the same busted taillight still hanging off the back. He was slumped in the driver's seat, the door cracked open just enough to see the pipe resting in his lap, still warm from use. The faint smell of chemicals clung to the air around him, a reminder of everything that had led up to this point.
Mike’s face was pale, his lips cracked and dry. His body seemed small in the driver’s seat, a shell of the person he used to be. I walked over slowly, my heart sinking with every step, but by the time I reached the car, it was too late. His eyes were wide open, unblinking, staring straight ahead into nothing. The pipe was still in his hand, but there was no more smoke. Just silence.
I didn’t know what to say. There was nothing left to say. He’d been chasing something, some high, some moment of escape from whatever demons he couldn’t outrun. But in the end, all he’d found was a parking lot in Vegas and an empty breath.
I knelt down beside him, hoping in some part of me that maybe, just maybe, he’d wake up. That somehow, this wasn’t the end. But it was. Mike couldn’t put the pipe down, and in the end, the pipe had taken everything.
And in the silence of that parking lot, the neon lights flickering in the distance, all I could do was whisper his name, hoping that wherever he was now, he’d finally find peace.
Heartbreaking film, essential viewing.
THIS MOVIE WAS GNARLY ROUGH! 💔😭
God bless anyone struggling with addiction right now. May Jesus Christ be with them.
if only jesus had any real ability to help
I love this sm
This terrifies me. I have a 3 month old son that just smiles at me all the time. I want to shield him from this but I know I can’t.
Currently struggling w alcohol, I really feel if I don't stop I wont be here for my family. Its been a long road...
It is a beautiful book
I know this is beautiful and seirous but.. Micheal and Holly are going through it right now
Это лучшая роль Тимоти Шаломе.
I can’t stay clean
Don’t stop trying. Rooting for you
✌️😊
Has anyone cried ?
I’m going through this and I’m 63
Just dumb
@@jamorfatithat’s so unfair, addiction is a serious problem and can effect a lot of people around you. Think before you comment!
Codependency is what the family is doing ie supporting his addiction, and they could end up loving him to death. His only hope is finding other addicts with problems similar to his and by attendance at 12 Step meetings.
12 step meetings won’t save you
Music name pls
Max richer . On the nature of daylight
yes!
“Tweak” was a better book.
Speaking personally? Meth sucks. Don’t do it. I used it every day for almost ten years. I ended up on the streets with nothing.
For anyone who has this same issue, turn to Christ, he loves you and can fill that void within, all you have to do is ask. God Bless
"thoughts and prayers" 🙄
So now hollywood is making drama about druguse in the US? I thought they only did "it´s cool to smoke pot and do drugs" backed by talkshows like Conan and that laughing squirrel.
I hate crystal… I hate this
stop trying to make drug addicts feel comfortable. they just dont feel the same after the first hit
Shit.
I've been distantly communicated with the stepson who I went to war on behalf of 15 years ago, we broke our deals with the court. And he was supposed to clean up and of course he wasn't ready. He's been through multiple meat grinders. He's now, dear God, almost 40. Finally, he's checked into rehab on his own. Let's hope it works. I'd like to see a happy end of this story because I'm expecting that other phone call any day and have been for a long time. I think he's run out of road and he knows it. I think he looked death in the eyes and has not decided to go. That way, man, he's pretty beat up. I do believe this is his last chance. Unfortunately, the story repeats itself over and over again
Ive been to rehab 3 times this year and im currently in the same situation. I drink a lot till i get withdrawals and this movie hit me hard.
@@LEEJoshua13 you will be so happy when you get there.