same here, my youngest sister is messed up real bad from pills and weed, cant hold a job, borderline hysteria round the clock, affected our family heavily.
luckily our step mum was a psyc. nurse and spend many years dealing with similar- and our family being heavily Salvation Army helped us cope with a very tough time.
It still isnt easy- My sister is now in her 40's and married, and we reckon the bloke that married her is either an angel- or idiot. She will never hold a decent job, even basic stuff like cleaning or gardening cant hold her attention.
We still get phone calls at all hours with a shaky stressed out voice on the other end.
I swear- if I ever find the mongrel that did this to our family, julimar forrest will have a well fertilised patch.
I spent years working at a big beachside hotel in scarborough-being the bloke who could open deadlocked doors I was often first on the scene of overdoses and suicides (half assed attempts, overdoses and the occaisional successful one)
I have fiddled doors open to see walls painted in blood,and other stuff.
One where a young lass skinned her arm with her fingernails,
a similar one from a bloke who tried castrating himself,
another time,a bloke that jumped from 17th floor- aiming for the lamp post outside the pommy pub directly underneath- missed and hit the limestone wall- and burst like a cheap snagger on the barbie. not nice first thing in the morning.took me ages to hose the area down- couldnt get it all- seagulls were too fast.
I used to come home sometimes feeling like I had been in a warzone.
Anyone that tells me they can handle thier drugs is only fooling themselves.
As a last note- before my step mum retired, she was based at Bently mental outpatients clinic.
Over 80% of thier workload was from marijuana induced psychosis, the other 20% were from "regular" stress, other drugs other stuff.
then speed, extacy, meth arrived big time just as she retired. it was a good time for her to retire.
Stephen
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