RE: Contest: The Big New Year's Quiz - The Results / Das Große Jahresanfangs-Quiz - Die Auswertung
Dear @weisser-rabe,
thank you again for the contest and especially a BIG THANK YOU for the prize!
As you said, unfortunately no one other partecipated, sadly... It would've been interesting to read from other perspectives, but i'm still happy to have won the prize ;)
Yeah, it's a matter of interpretation, if a drug addiction counts as a voluntarly exit from society. As you said, the first try out is mostly voluntarly (or because the brain of a 14-16 years old isn't developed enough to make a good decision on that topic), the second one could also be voluntarly, but if it gets slowly to a everyday use it's probably not a voluntarly exit from society anymore, but more a matter of the addiction.
Fortunately there are many public services who can help those who got addicted, at least in my area. And also without them and my girlfriend i wouldn't have been able to quit for good. Even if it was mostly "just" weed i consumed, it still was a hard and long way to quit complete (more or less). And i even managed it pretty well with weed! Like some days ago i was at a friends house and he smoked a joint. And guess what? I was fine with that! Like i didn't heard from him in a long time - just last year we got in contact again, after he came back from his stationed withdrawal service in Venice. And he also told me this. Like when we last met some years ago i would've gone crazy when he smoked near me and i couldn't smoke. Yet i sat there on the second couch, while he smoked on the other and i didn't even lost a thought about making some hits too (last but not least because i still had to drive home by car, but still^^).
For the chemical stuff it was also really hard to never touch it again. Not because of everyday use, but because i can't go to a party anymore, no Serata and nothing. And i really loved those times! So it was harder to let go from that than from the substances per se ;)
Have a great weekend,
@dissi
Congratulations to you @dissi 🙏 even though I have decided to participate in this interesting contest a long time ago, I "couldn't" finish my writing until the contest end date...
I've already written a little, referring to Awung's book, Belenggu—A True Story of a Drug Addict. It's the dark journey of a man named Neru, who struggled hard and took a long time to return to his normal life with the help of his mother...
Drug addiction is a social phenomenon, not caused by promiscuity or easy access to drugs, but by limited thinking skills when considering a problem without a final solution. It's a forced escape due to the difficulty of neutralizing various problems.
Those closest to our are very competent to help, such as your mother, father, or other close relatives, as in your story.
Thank you!
And thanks for your input. You can still publish it, even if the contest is over, i would be interested to read your idea :) Just tag me if you decide to still post it, so i don't miss it ;)
One part are the limited thinking skills, but i'm sure the prohibiton also put it's money to the pot. Liek for me one big point why i did it was exactly because it's illegal. That's not a factor for not trying it out but a factor for especially trying it out (at least for me^^).
But mostly it was because of my thoughts. Like i got a long period where my thoughts drove me crazy: Everyday the same thoughts, the same topic, running in circles inside my head, always faster and faster. And when i smoked some weed, those thoughts suddenly were silence, i got other thoughts, and specially got a break from all this! Now i got medication which helps me a bit. I don't say it's for 100% the right medication, but at least i don't get those thoughts so fast inside my head, which is also a good help :)
Also i was curious about various substances since i was a little child (just don't ask me why, it was just as it was, i don't even have an answer to that question^^). So i wanted to try nearly everything because i was curious how substance X impacts my mind, my feeling, etc. But even if i consumed without any inhibition, there are still some (in comparsion "harmless") drugs i never tried - even if i had the chance to. Just because they don't interest me, like snooze (idk how it's called in your language, it's like nicotine but in packages which you put under your lips), poppers and another one, which don't get to my mind rn... Also i have no interest in trying Meth for example, still used it once, because it was cutted into my very first ecstasy-pill, which i didn't know back than.
I wouldn't say that my closest are very competend to help. Like the mother was mostly the reason i got into it and my father let me smoke my weed everyday on our terrace. But i must say my father pushed the public mental health service to some point where they were able to set the first step into a new life for me: I had a talk with the social worker there and she found some place to work for me, a so called working rehabilitation center. Sure, the work there wasn't great or very demanding, but it got me some structure/routine: I had to get up in the morning, going to "work" aka. that center. Was there for some hours, ate lunch there, "worked" a bit more and got back home, where i then was able to smoke my first joint of the day. Also that center found a real workplace for me, where i work since 4 years now. And i really love that place! Like first it was a bit strange, like i studied informatics and now i'm a book keeper. Still the informatic studies turned out helpful for that type of work^^