Life The MangaHelpers Confessional Thread - Part 3

[earthforge]

I confess that I squished a shy admirer's request to hang out. He's a kid four years younger than me who has a crush on me since we took the train together from a couple of scholarship events. (I figured it was safer to travel with someone else, since I don't feel safe taking the train alone from SF after 9pm -- we chatted on the train, which combined with not having much of a social life, resulting in instant crush on his end.) I don't feel so bad, considering he said the damnedest things about women's rights and had the worst grasp of evolution I could imagine in a supposed medical researcher prodigy.

 

[Adorien]

it's okay Adi-tan, we all have known you were into girls for a while.

You're so random.

Moa, addiction and "under control" don't really go well together. As a friend, you could always try to reason with him, but in the end he would do whatever he wants. I hope he's okay though.

 

[TheMoa]

Yeah, they don't.. but I doo think that it's possible to manage some situations. A dunno about cocaine, never did it, don't know how manageable it is.
It's just.. he's a grown man, he have been there before, he knows better... but at what point he isn't on the control anymore? Cuz he's a friend.. it's just too complicated

 

[kkck]

I don't think science backs up the notion that addicts "know better". You do have a grown man that supposedly "knows better" but when it comes to addictions they are fighting actual biological urges which will basically fight to the death their common sense which supposedly knows better (in my mind I just pictured a joust between biological urges and rational thought except that the urges had a tank). Addiction is not something that ever stops, its something you manage.... If he was an actual addict and he had a relapse then he needs all the help he can get.

 

[Schabrak]

it looks like it's already a problem.

It doesn't look so, it clearly is, addicition to hard drugs can never be controlled. And taking crack is just another way to evade reality. While I never took the hard stuff and luckily got out of the circle of drugs, I happened to be the driver a couple times... I know people taking PEP/Speed or heroin or other white feeling 'n stuff, its name I wouldn't even wanted to know. It gives them a kick, they speak how they missed that stuff etc. Your friend needs to get away from it, take a therapy, as taking it still will only lead to worsen of the situation.

 

[TheMoa]

The knows better is about he knowing that he had problems with it before and he's walking a thin line.

I do believe that every individual is different and it's possible to control addiction without a complete abstinece, but it's hard and not possible for everyone.
On this last episode he "lost" his cell phone.. dunno if he was robbed or really lost it.
Anyway, I talked to some common close friends... we decide to just gauge how he's doing/feeling in life and all. I think that a full sit down or intervention would just push him away right now. So we just talk, listen and see... I mean, he's a grown man, we're no position to force him nothing.If thing get worse... than we'll talk with his GF and all (she's a long time GF, knows him before we do, so she probably have a better insight in all this than we)

 

[M3J]

You can force him to stay away from drugs and make sure he never gets his hands on it for a long time, but if he doesn't want to stop, then he won't stop. It's still up to him to stop.

 

[Adorien]

I confess that... I laugh when I sleep. xD

 

[TheMoa]

Well, I ended talking with a close friend who lives with him now (he just moved to a new apt)... and this friend told me that he just interned his father on a rehab of multiple drugs! And that he won't let it get on this level with our friend.
I also talked with him... and he said that he knows it's getting out of hand, that he shouldn't be doing it... that he needs to stop
That on that day he brought some coke and spent all his money with prostitutes on a brothel... he's on a 5 year relationship with his GF.

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I confess that... I laugh when I sleep. xD

I confess that when I drink I snore a LOT... I mean, really loud, like a beast! Or so says everyone else, I never heard it

 

[kkck]

Its rare to find an occasion to use this meme so perfectly. On another note, snorting cocaine out of a hooker is probably an indication that that guy needs some serious help or even rehab.

 

[digitaldude]

Its rare to find an occasion to use this meme so perfectly. On another note, snorting cocaine out of a hooker is probably an indication that that guy needs some serious help or even rehab.

Maybe he just wants to have fun man?

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I confess that... I laugh when I sleep. xD

That's creepy.

 

[kkck]

Maybe he just wants to have fun man?

YOLO, swag and all that stuff I guess....

That's creepy.

I'd argue it depends on the laugh. It would go kinda either way if its like a giggle.... It would warrant reactions somewhere between "ahhh, she must be dreaming something cute" or "damn, I am about to get murdered my a doll". If its like a hysterical laughter it would be annoying more than anything. If its more like a traditional evil laugh (like MUAHAHAHAHAH or a low paces HE HE HE) it would be more along the lines of creepy. All of them warrant the question "what in the holy hell are you dreaming".

I confess I have said some weird stuff while sleeping. Once when I was a kid I told my parents in I knew where the elephants where (no context at all there). My mom woke me up when she laugh. Also as a kid I sleep talked my way out of going to school once (which is probably not something I would have been able to pull off awake).

 

[Adorien]

Yeah, it's a short, sort of quiet giggle like "hihi". xD

Sometimes I also moan... xD Not like that but it's sort of like "hmpf", once I even woke up cause of that.

Honestly, I have no idea how I can laugh when I sleep, when I feel so nervous when I'm awake.

 

[Naomi]

My sister has done that in her sleep. It was creepy as shit. I was awake half the night like O___________O


I confess that I don't have my dad's phone number. I got a smart phone though. I don't know how to use it.

 

[z.5]

I am still scarred from staying at a friends house and discovering that he not only talked in his sleep, but did it with his eyes open as well...

Friend having REM and talking -> utter lack of sleep and no desire to ever stay at their house ever again.

 

[jorped]

I also talk on my sleep! Kinda afraid of what things i might be saying while i am sleeping

 

[Dried Ambrosia]

I talk about killing the red dragon in my sleep

 

[kkck]

Thats so metal.

 

[xi0]

I talk about killing the red dragon in my sleep

 

[M3J]

My sister has done that in her sleep. It was creepy as shit. I was awake half the night like O___________O


I confess that I don't have my dad's phone number. I got a smart phone though. I don't know how to use it.

Use your smart phone to watch porn and send dick pictures to hot girls.