Is there a loved one or family member around you dealing with addiction? Addiction can come from prescription pain medication, illegal substances, or alcohol. Whatever the drug of choice for the individual, the addiction can lead down a path of irrefutable damage. From mangling relationships with their loved ones to being in trouble with the law, living your life for addiction is no way to live at all.
Though, those that love an addict may find it difficult to cope with the loss of the person they once knew. The person is now a totally different person, with little glimmers of who they used to be. If you're in a situation where you have a person with an addiction in your life, and you'd like to help them, you'd likely want to know what the best way to handle the situation would be.
Worry About Overdosing
The figures for overdose deaths in the United States are staggering. Heroin addiction is the number one. It only takes one usage of heroin for a person to become an addict. It only takes one time of taking the wrong amount, and death is a result. For most family members and friends, the worry of their loved one overdosing is significant. It could be thought about consuming and interfering with their daily life. To combat the possibility of overdosing, getting your loved one help sooner rather than later is the best option. Though most addicts, until they are ready, won't seek treatment on their own.
Prior Mental Health Issues
Mental health issues can occur before addiction begins. This doesn’t mean that the mental health disorder contributed to the addiction, simply that it was present. If you’re dealing with a loved with a history of mental health issues it can be an uphill battle for recovery. For this situation, friends and family are better off seeking a treatment center that offers dual diagnosis treatment. Not only can the addiction be treated but also the underlying mental health. In many ways treating mental health can help an addict stay in recovery.
Don't Cater
This is the biggest rule friends and family should follow. If you cater to your addicted family member or friend, you'll be giving them away to use. This is counterproductive to them quitting, and only creates a situation where you turn resentful, then upset because they're using. While it may be difficult to what some may consider 'turn your back'—there have to be boundaries. Instead, offer assistance with finding a treatment plan or facility to help them get clean. The addict may struggle with you putting up a wall, but having a boundary and offering support in a healthy way is the best option. The dynamic may drastically vary depending on the situation, including a parent/child relationship.
Do you know how to become a guide who will help your child find his or her own way to a happy life?Such natural guides are parents.
They themselves have been prepared for life by their parents and most often they copy (consciously or unconsciously) the schemes and beliefs instilled in them by their carers.For many centuries this system has worked quite well.
The living conditions did not change drastically over the course of one generation - what worked well in the world of parents in the majority, with minor modifications, worked well in the world of their children.This model is no longer a good exam in the modern world.
Social, moral and technical changes are taking place so quickly that the world of children and parents are completely different worlds.The world of our grandparents had established patterns: social status and opportunities, depending mainly on their background and education - only a few individuals were able to break out of their environment.
Most often children followed in the footsteps of their parents - several generations worked all their lives in the same factory, in the same profession.Also, the children's upbringing patterns were copied without major changes - because the parents didn't even realize that they could change something.Our parents' world has partly changed these conditions.
Those who were passionate about their profession were able to awaken aspirations and willingness to deepen their knowledge in young minds, although it still depended to a great extent on the attitude of their parents whether something beautiful would grow out of this seed or be trampled on by contempt and destructive criticism.The role of knowledge was more and more appreciated - it was a ticket to better work, better material conditions, but still the role played by the beliefs instilled in our childhood was underestimated.And they were often copies of what previous generations passed on: "you're not good enough", "you don't deserve attention and respect", "others are smarter and better than you", "you mustn't be selfish, the needs of others first, yours at the end", "showing your feelings is a sign of weakness", "you're only fit to listen to commands", "keep your head down, be like others", "life is hard", and so on.In the result, better material conditions did not mean a better, happier life.Parents who were not happy themselves did not know how to teach happiness to their children - also no-one taught them this.More and more responsibility for raising children was placed on school - and it is not school, but home is a place where children's characters and attitudes are formed.Whether children feel loved at home or whether parents are wise guides and support for them depends on how they are able to take advantage of the growing opportunities they face.In order to do this task well, it is high time to realize that to be a good parent you also have to prepare yourself.
At first glance, these sets of photographs might appear to show the same person.
In fact they capture children who bear an uncanny resemblance to a parent at the same age.
This daughter went to a lot of effort to recreate the same photo her mother had taken many moons ago at stonehenge
There is a strong resemblance between this father and son who even share the exact same facial expression
This father and son look so alike it is borderline spooky
This father and daughter share the same cheeky smile and curly hair
