Switched-On :: Blog

So just recently I was talking to a friend about one of her relationship problems. She told me that her boyfriend (of about a year) likes to smoke weed. He loves to do it with his friends. She on the other hand is totally against anyone doing drugs and alcohol. I mean I am too, so I understand where she is coming from. She completely hates her boyfriend smoking weed. At times she would beg him not to do it. He would be like, “Ok, I won’t.” Then a couple weeks later he is off doing it again. Once he even made a promise to her saying that he wouldn’t smoke as often. Maybe like twice or month or so (I don’t remember exactly what was said). Then my friend was telling me that he plans on doing it again soon. They had a mini argument. He was like, “I’m 18 and I do what I want.” Now that upset her quite a bit. She has no clue what to think or do. She was telling me her options: break up with him because of him doing such things (because possibly he will never change) and because she just plain hates the fact that she doesn’t want to be someone who does things like that or just accept him for what he does. He hasn’t gotten hurt or anything…. any suggestions?

- Tatiana

A friend of mine was complaining about having what he called small seizures off and on again over the past month. That same friend also does drugs on what I would call a regular basis. Initially I linked the two problems but he turned my diagnosis away, saying he’d been one step ahead of me, and in fact, believing the same thing, had stopped his little habit for a few weeks. Sadly enough, today, using terms such as serotonin and melatonin, he explained that we’d both been right before. Worse, those seizures happen because he’s already well medicated. I’ve always been against recreational drugs, but this little mishap set me off. I know that I can’t stop everyone from doing them though I wish they’d take some sort of consideration for themselves. Apparently, LSD, as he informed me, once taken 50 times or more, makes you clinically insane. I think the first time should be enough for that declaration. I know that he can count though I doubt he will stop, and I think watching him slowly off himself is the hardest part. I get that they make the world a little brighter but still, who really wants to see that white light with their tunnel vision?

- Eric