Posts: 1842
From: meet me in montauk
Registered: May 2006

posted August 11, 2008 12:21 PM         

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depressing stuff, edited.

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Posts: 4162
From:
Registered: Dec 2005

posted August 11, 2008 01:28 PM         

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Well I've got a candle
And I've got a spoon
I live in a hallway with no doors
And no rooms

Under a windowsill
They all were found
A touch of concrete within the doorway
Without a sound

Someone save me if you will
And take away all these pills
And please just save me if you can
From my blasphemy in my wasteland

How did I get here
And what went wrong
Couldn't handle forgiveness
Now I'm far beyond gone

I can hardly remember
The look of my own eyes
How can I love this - a life so dishonest
It made me compromise

Someone save me if you will
And take away all these pills
And please just save me if you can
From my blasphemy in my wasteland

Jump in the water
Jump in with me
Jump on the altar
Lay down with me

The hardest question to answer
Is why

Why

Someone save me if you will
And take away all these pills
And please just save me if you can
From my blasphemy in my wasteland

Someone save me
Someone save me
Somebody save me
Somebody save me
Please don't erase me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo203iTX7vg

I don't have all the answers for you yet, but I typed a few things I have learned in another thread. Zala probably has the link. The simplest thing is to listen without judgment with sincere effort at understanding. It allows people to figure out the Truth for themselves. Then if you are willing to be there when they are taking positive steps you can add some energy to their path to recovery. You just can't stand by and pick them up every time they stumble on the wrong path, this is enabling and will only prevent them from hitting the rock bottom that is necessary for rebirth and transformation... and the longer it takes to hit that rock bottom the more damage is done and the harder the hit.
Never enable.

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From: south africa
Registered: Dec 2007

posted August 11, 2008 02:10 PM         

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How about an intervention?

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What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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From: My Mother
Registered: Oct 2006

posted August 11, 2008 08:57 PM         

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I'm sorry to read this, but my prayers actually go out to you. He sounds so deep in denial its scary. An intervention may or may not help, but its the only method that may get through to him. You have my best wishes. Please keep us posted.

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