12-22-2011, 01:30 PM
Well the title pretty much says it all. I recently found this out by another good friend of mine, which told me who she was smoking marijuana with. Now I know that there's quite a large debate about whether 'weed' is actually good or not, but I will say that she's only a Freshman in Highschool, and to start drugs now would open up a big crack that could spread to different areas of her life: Dropping out, drug addiction, physically changing, mentally/emotionally changing, interaction with dangerous gangs, dropping out of school, etc.
She's smoked so much that she almost constantly coughs during class/lunch, and I would just come straight out and tell her to stop, but at the same time, my friend tried to tell her and she just got mad. It seems she's too set on getting high, because like all drugs it makes you feel less pain and forget your worries. She's always had family problems and other major problems with life, which I won't mention and a lot more I don't know. I do know that the main reason that she's actually started it is because there's nothing else she can do to dull all her worries, because she's not in a relationship with anyone right now.
I've been trying to help her out, but I'm pretty 'socially awkward' (whatever term you want to use would be fine. Just a really mellowed down version of autism), and I don't do good with face to face conversations. I'm sure plenty of people will also say to "get help", or "contact the law enforcement" but I know at the same time it'll probably drive her into doing other, more delinquent things like vandalism and possibly petty theft. I've told her plenty of times that I don't want anything to happen to her, so that she'd possibly see that she means something to at least one person, and that it would hopefully bring her to realization, but that's not the case. She's also gotten drunk on several occasions and if she keeps it up it'll end up ruining her whole life and you can't just die and respawn with a completely new start on life.
I've gotten a high spike in my stress level lately, with complete stupidity at my school, like how at least half of the people in highschool do a variety of drugs outside of it. I myself may drink something on special occasions but never getting completely drunk to the point that I have a freaking hangover. Anyways, back on subject:
I was wondering if anyone knew something I could do to help her, because with Christmas break just starting she has plenty of time to throw her life away. I have a feeling I'm just gonna have to wait it out then when the break ends, she'll come back a completely different person, which has happened to someone else already (I guess it's just my luck, huh?). She does text but not that much anymore, probably because she's been smoking and has gotten less sociable.
There's not much else to say, besides that I've got a terrible feeling and feeling completely helpless really isn't something enjoyable.
She's smoked so much that she almost constantly coughs during class/lunch, and I would just come straight out and tell her to stop, but at the same time, my friend tried to tell her and she just got mad. It seems she's too set on getting high, because like all drugs it makes you feel less pain and forget your worries. She's always had family problems and other major problems with life, which I won't mention and a lot more I don't know. I do know that the main reason that she's actually started it is because there's nothing else she can do to dull all her worries, because she's not in a relationship with anyone right now.
I've been trying to help her out, but I'm pretty 'socially awkward' (whatever term you want to use would be fine. Just a really mellowed down version of autism), and I don't do good with face to face conversations. I'm sure plenty of people will also say to "get help", or "contact the law enforcement" but I know at the same time it'll probably drive her into doing other, more delinquent things like vandalism and possibly petty theft. I've told her plenty of times that I don't want anything to happen to her, so that she'd possibly see that she means something to at least one person, and that it would hopefully bring her to realization, but that's not the case. She's also gotten drunk on several occasions and if she keeps it up it'll end up ruining her whole life and you can't just die and respawn with a completely new start on life.
I've gotten a high spike in my stress level lately, with complete stupidity at my school, like how at least half of the people in highschool do a variety of drugs outside of it. I myself may drink something on special occasions but never getting completely drunk to the point that I have a freaking hangover. Anyways, back on subject:
I was wondering if anyone knew something I could do to help her, because with Christmas break just starting she has plenty of time to throw her life away. I have a feeling I'm just gonna have to wait it out then when the break ends, she'll come back a completely different person, which has happened to someone else already (I guess it's just my luck, huh?). She does text but not that much anymore, probably because she's been smoking and has gotten less sociable.
There's not much else to say, besides that I've got a terrible feeling and feeling completely helpless really isn't something enjoyable.