How does someone help a person with addiction?
Helping someone with their addiction? Addiction is so bad for the person going through it, and it’s bad for the person trying to help them. What a person can do is “ be there” ! Caring, understanding, just being in the same room not doing anything even helps. It gives the person who is addicted a sense of knowing someone really cares. As an addict they sometimes feel that no one cares for them or loves them and they tend to feel alone. Let the person who is the addict know you care, that you’ll stand by them. The next step is to help the person who is fighting addiction to break a way so to speak , and going with them to Dr. appointments, counseling appointments , meetings, and what ever they need to have knowing they are not alone.The biggest and most important way is to let them know your on their side. Having compassion as well , now addicts though tend to use someones feelings to gain what they need to continue in their addiction. Not many people will know this, unless they had been addicts themselves. I can tell what is real and what is being used to basically trick me into thinking that they are okay, and they need that drink to “ feel” better or that pill to get them through the day. Personally I am going through this with someone I care deeply for. I have not left them and I know it’s going to be a struggle, but this person will make it and not alone. Letting them know your there for them, but not letting them walk all over you. I am a tough person to fool, but that comes from being an addict myself. And an addict is forever in recovery, I do believe this strongly. If your helping someone through their addiction, kindness, is a lot of it, understanding helps, stay strong yourself, love this person, let them know they are not alone. Even if you have no idea what addiction feels like, just trust that it’s not pretty.Good Luck
How do I help someone who is a drug addict and make that person realize the value of his life?
it doesn’t always matter how much you love someone or help someone. Sometimes people just never change. You must be willing to accept the fact that the person your close to may never quit. I have people in my own family who struggle with alcoholism and past drug use. I’m actually shocked I have never been an alcoholic or drug addict myself. But I’ve never smoked weed been drunk before, never popped pills etc.however I do have energy drinks and I started smoking cigarettes for the first time at 28 years old and I’m 29 now. I began with the occasional cigar, then vaping then cigarettes. This is the worst I’ve ever been into addiction.Pretty much all of my friends and my latest ex girlfriend have been drug users or recovering addicts and let me tell you, it’s one of those things that can seriously damage your relationships in your life from family, friends and significant others. Trying to help an addict can cost you everything.I’ve watched marriages fall apart, families destroyed and my own relationship fall apart over drug addiction. I watched my ex girlfriend abandon her children and leave all of us behind like we didn’t matter.never let yourself believe there’s anything you can do to change an addict your chances are dismal. Do not get caught up in changing an addict.
Former drug addicts, what is the best way to help someone out of their drug addiction?
Help them find purpose!They need distraction and to feel like their life has meaning and purpose. You could start by getting them a little organiser to motivate them. You get those good ones with pages at the end so that they can write down their feelings and progress - and they could even share this with you.Make sure they keep their medical appointments, but also see if there is a talk group somewhere.Therapy is helpful - help them join a club where they can learn a new art or skill.Finally, to give them real purpose and integrate them, find a place they can volunteer - convince that person they are needed there.Often people turn to drugs when they feel left out, neglected or following trauma.Wish you both the best! xx
How can i help my friend with her drug addiction if she has a legitimate permanent physical pain?
I have a friend addicted to meth. She has permanent legitanent physical disorders that are very painful. They complicate her ability to maintain employment. I have moved her into my home an set little expectations an offered to help her with some government program help which she has previously been denied several times. She is coupled with depression an no family support. I have little to no extra income to help her an don't want to move her from one addiction to another. How do i help her?
What's it called when you feed someone's addiction?
ENABLER Enabling is doing for others what they are capable of doing for themselves. When we enable addicts, we prevent them from experiencing the consequences of their own actions. When we do this, we discourage them from learning from their own mistakes. This, in turn, prevents them from realizing they have a problem.
How can you help someone who is a cocaine addict and stays on cocain all the time without sending them to a rehab?
Only an addict can help him / her self. You can support but you can’t do the work for the person you care about. Rehab is to detox the body from the physical addiction. The next step is to work on the behaviors of an addict. There are many Intensive Outpatient programs to investigate; as well as SMART and NA meetings.
Can a cocaine addict love someone? Have a loving relationship with someone?
Dana, leave him. Plain and simple. I am an self-proclaimed alcoholic and drug addict and destroyed my ex-girlfriend in three years of our relationship because of my addictions. I would make up lies to go home and drink. I would not call her for days on end because I would have a connection to cocaine. I would blow all my money on pot, alcohol, any drug I could find to get high and then say I didn't have enough money to come see her. Lied every time. Told her I'd get better AT LEAST FIVE HUNDRED times. No ******* joke. Haven't yet, and now that it's over, I'm trying desperately because I'm a shame and a sham. He will set you up as his codependent to his addiction. Drugs aren't there, you're there. Drugs are there, you're second, always. This doesn't mean he isn't interested in you or doesn't love you, but addiction is a piece of **** that destroys people and their ability to prioritize. I would love you to help him, but getting ARRESTED for cocaine shows me he was in a little deep. I've done enough cocaine to kill someone (I don't know why I'm not dead), but I've never had trouble with the law. Another thing: cocaine addicts can also be sex addicts. When I was on a stint with cocaine, and didn't have cocaine readily available, I wanted to **** my girlfriend all the time. Any girl. I just wanted the pleasure of sex. No love, just sex. Bottom line, Dana, I would like to see you find someone who doesn't use. It makes me tear up to think I'm talking to you about your guy and myself, but it's for your better overall enjoyment of life. With love, good luck.
What is it called when you support someone's bad addiction unintentionally?
Can't think of the word. For example what is it called when someone is an alcoholic and another person is unintentionally "supports" those habits by giving them alcohol.