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My deeply troubled friend quite clearly wants romance.
A far-wiser mentor of mine advised me that for me to allow that would do _both_ of us a grave disservice. Even so, I've been reluctant to put a stop to what presently is barreling along turned all the way up to 11: Full-Hormonal.
The very best that I can really hope for is to be there when she's hungry for food - which she's actually not, not very much, and even then she's largely living off of peanut butter and honey - as well as giving her a safe place to sleep, to the extent she's not engaged in her relentless search for her next fix.
She quite clearly _hopes_ to get clean somehow, someday. I want to facilitate that. My far-wiser mentor advised me to encourage anything she does that is positive. But so far, also she has is hope for "someday".
She's not in as much denial as I've known lots of others to be. She knows very well that this stuff is bound to kill her someday. She's quite dismayed to have woken up in the back of an ambulance after she unwittingly shot fentanyl then "got NarCanned" but not as dismayed as she would have been had that fentanyl actually killed her.
From time to time she'll ask me whether I object to The Monkey On Her Back. Quite clearly I do, but always I say "It is _your_ decision, and yours _alone_". I know this from hard experience with other addicts I have known.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Freeman on Friday December 21 2018, @06:19PM (1 child)
She wouldn't be dismayed at all, if she was dead. Very nearly having killed herself should make her very dismayed. Yes, drugs are a hard thing to kick, but so long as she's unwilling to stop. There's only so much you can do for her. Sex isn't much of a drug to a drug addict.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @02:20PM
Heroin addicts that want to get clean will do so. People I know that have kicked dope habits generally do so after having kids, giving them a reason to give a fuck about life. Others just continue in a cycle of drug abuse and self-pity that reinforces itself. Claims of wanting to "get clean" are often to get sympathy from others, rather than the cries for help that charitable people think they are. MDC, do whatever you feel like doing, but keep your cash and valuables secure and don't give her money or believe ANYTHING she says.