I made it through 8 minutes of an episode of Intervention once before I felt my stomach turn, my mouth started to water the way it does right before you blow chunks and I ran out of the room.
Yeah, *I* ran….away from my own television set.
I stood in the hallway, my heart pounding out of my chest, I couldn’t breathe, I felt like I was suffocating..I couldn’t cry, scream or even think straight..my legs felt like Jello…finally I gasped, fell to my knees and bawled like a fucking baby. Why? What the hell?! It’s just a tv show!
It’s just a tv show that I cannot watch.
It’s not a bad show that I’m aware of, I honestly only made it through 8 minutes..I’m not bashing the show….it’s just….for me…I can’t watch it.
Something similar happened tonight…anti-meth commercials are now popping up all over network television. I felt the same crazy anger creeping up on me as I watched the commercial. I made it through the whole commercial (yay me) but then it occurred…I cannot watch someone strung out on meth, a fragment of who and what they used to be….I cannot watch another family pull desperately at string that are already frayed, only to have their loved one take the frayed string and hang themselves with it.
It’s painful, insulting, heart breaking and makes my blood boil.
I have absolutely no patience/tolerance/sympathy for a meth addict.
For any meth addict.
The smell of a meth addict makes my fists clench in fear…and a bit of anger. The sight of a meth addict makes me sick to my stomach. The twisted and warped words that come out of their mouths makes me so bloody angry I want to punch a kitten.
I left my job at the hospital because I just couldn’t muster up the compassion to care for a meth addict. Honestly. I didn’t want to help them…that’s not like me (even on my bitchiest day I’m a helper) I figured if they wanted to smoke that fucking poison then they could tough it out till they OD’ed. Rather than adding “watch a meth addict OD” to the list of shit I did, I left.
I left my meth addicted husband, I left the job I once loved, I left my friends, I left my home….I left that town. I knew that meth would be where ever I tried to go but I figured not knowing the addicts personally would make a difference.
It hasn’t.
It’s been years since I lived the Book of Meth….it’s been years since I’ve seen a meth addict that I know personally. I refused to see my own cousin until I was certain he was clean….I’m not easily convinced either but that boy proved himself and continues to prove himself to this day.
It occurred to me tonight that it may always be this way for me…I may never be able to watch Intervention or care for an addict….I may never see a glass pipe and not get sick to my stomach, the sight of a meth addict could very well haunt me for the rest of my life.
Although I personally have never used meth (or anything outside of my beloved Mary), it still managed to leave a scar on me. He may have been the addict but he wasn’t the only one who was affected by it. I live with his bad decisions everyday, I have the nightmares of fighting him off me, my stomach turns at the sight of a glass pipe, meth is a drug that whether you use it or not…you ARE going to feel the aftermath.
I can’t possibly be the only one in the world whose ex is a meth addict.
Where are you ladies. I want to know what it’s like for YOU.
The one who feels the burn of someone else’s addiction even after they’re gone…































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