Who else thinks that Stephanie’s drinking/probably drug abuse is going to become a major story arc within the next few episodes?
The dinner scene with “Ryan, I mean Harris” she could barely keep her eyes open or focused on him, and you could tell she had the spins by the look in her eyes, and the way she was speaking and acting. Then, they focused the camera on that glass of wine for a pretty pregnant pause, and made sure to include her proclaiming she had to finish her wine before they went to the room.
Side note: I also think this woman uses her money and citizenship as a way to lure young men into her bed. I’ve never seen someone flip so fast from “the love of her life” to a new “meant to be” - what was it, 5 minutes before she had Harris on the phone? The way she talked to him at dinner about coming with her to America made me so uncomfortable, like very predatorily, dangling it and hoping he would bite. She is desperate for a young stud to bring back and decorate her arm with, and uses her money and privilege to hook these guys, and there is a strong “I’m better than you” vibe she’s projecting. I’m getting very strong Big Ed vibes from her.
There was a topic about this on the CHD sub but I want to know what sub members here think!
IMO, the level of drug and alc consumption Alex and Lauren currently broadcast them partaking in is “normal” for people their age AND I believe they are allowed to indulge in this lifestyle if they choose. I also don’t think we are in a position to decide if they do or don’t have a real problem.
The issue I take is making ANY kind of content (podcast segment, vlog, ig story) about drug and alc abuse, be it joke or serious or semi-joke/serious. Just don’t use a massive platform to encourage irresponsible use of substances, especially when your audience demographic is majority teenage girls.
Because Alex and Lauren incorporate their inebriated adventures regularly now, into the brand’s content, I believe it’s total fair game for criticism and scrutiny under those circumstances.
Do y’all think Alex has a bigger responsibility than Lauren to not broadcast that stuff, given Lauren isn’t officially part of the brand?
https://np.reddit.com/r/Chodi/comments/m1vqr4/webseries_make_using_drugs_by_little_girls_look/
It is cliche now but literally every single time I think these idiots cannot get stupider than this, they prove me wrong.
It takes massive brain damage to think that a show depicting a troubled girl, craving for attention, doing drugs after getting annoyed that her crush is into someone else, is “promoting substance abuse”. Though the truth is that they lie deliberately to create outrage because they know none of the beasts dancing would have watched it or would bother to watch it.
Also, her mom is dead. So you know, she can’t really teach her to not do drugs.
> Visualize, Conceptualise, Publicise and Legalize.
> Stop them at the first step and you stop the entire shit show that follows.
Of course, here come our victim men.
Which world do these chutiyas live in. Men are the victims once again. Not like one out of every 40 women face sexual violence every
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I have seen a lot of posts about the moms drinking/smoking/doing drugs pregnant. I probably didnt look hard enough but do we know this to be true? Ones I have seen are Jenelle smoking weed through all of her pregnancies, Maci drinking during her last two pregnancies, Cate smoking through her last 3 pregnancies. Is this true? WTF is wrong with these people if so, like not only is that horrible to do to your unborn child, but also youre on TV!? These kids were also all planned!?
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I dealt with alcohol and drugs for a while (not like in the gutter but enough to affect jobs and relationships, showing up Tuesday hungover is not good lol) and I think this game did a great job balancing the good and the bad - it's not a Nancy Reagan spinoff but it's also not your usual "drug make good," and it makes the character sympathetic. Just a thought, loving it so far
Specifically alcohol. Not a huge problem, but a bit. In my quick google search I couldn’t find much for substance abuse resources at purdue.
There seems to be a huge lack of resources and available housing in the area. Has anyone ever looked into this or tried to locate something and failed?
I'll preface this by mentioning that I'm 15. Even though I don't want to state my age since it brings with it a kind of stigma when talking about mental health, it's still important to how I'm struggling with substance abuse.
I have lately found out that it's a bit of a problem. I'm not doing any heavy drugs or anything yet, it's more of drinking and smoking marijuana I can get and such at every chance I get. I since have managed to distance myself a bit from it. I also used some antidepressants.
The thing is that even when the drug use was at its peak which was during and before the covid quarantine grades still stood at the top of the class. I was kinda able to do what train was able to do if you've seen that interview. If not he described how he had free time then used a whole lot of drugs, and then just stop completely for like a month or two. Which is where I'm at now.
The drugs haven't really affected my grades, it just affected me. I also know that it's not like very heavy drugs, I'm not on heroin, but therefore I wanted to bring up my age.
I think it really started with loneliness, and later when I found a nice friend group, they were struggling with substance abuse. After this, I went to their house and got drunk, and thought wow this feels good and I started drinking alone. Later came marujana and started using that too.
The problem is that I didn't think it was a problem because it didn't interfere with my grades, that was again since whenever I had a weekend or a week free that's when I would go on to use a whole lot. I've gotten better, but I still drink at parties. Another thing I feel guilty about is that my friends looked at me and say "oh he's successful at school and he's doing drugs so it can't be that bad." Me doing drugs justified my friend's drug problems.
I don't really know how to end this rambling besides, so Ill just end it right here.
Also sorry if there are any huge English mistakes since it's my 2nd language.
I'm so grateful for this community and your open kindness, Intelligence, and empathy just gives me that extra push to never turn around and selfishly have kids.
People have just been so irrational, hateful, domineering, and cruel towards me, even when I was at the top of my game. And now I ruminate about all day to the point where it's an addiction.
I was tempted to be passive aggressive and scheming for revenge and because I felt like that's life, but I held back, realizing that that would solve nothing, was pointless, and would be immoral and therefore pathetic. Nothing remains in some people but to spread misery and I refuse to stop to that.
So instead, I drink everyday. I have a couple other supplements like Schopenhauer etc. But they have already helped to a great extent.
Just wondering if anyone else drinks or whatever regularly?
Dude never looks right.
I have a disability appeal hearing. I have an attorney that is going to help me with my case. I'm applying for bipolar depression and generalized anxiety. I have more issues than that including a substance abuse problem. I've been taking suboxone for awhile now but I relapsed a few times recently and my doctor is taking me off suboxone because of a recent relapse. My appeal hearing is in a few weeks and I'm worried that is going to affect my case because people usually don't have sympathy with people who have a drug problem. Can anyone give me advice on what I can do to help my case? If anyone has had any recent experiences it would help to hear your story and the outcome of the situation.
I’d like your guys input on some good ways to tell an overly concerned mom that her kid won’t qualify for educationally related mental health services.
The student is in high school and has an IEP for SLD. Currently he’s failing classes due to truancy. He’s likely in a gang now (we suspect it but can’t confirm it). He uses marijuana and leaves home without permission almost daily.
Mom is insistent that we place him in residential services. He’s only done outside counseling through his church and his church suggested residential placement and to go through school.
I did interviews and ratings scales, and there’s no mental health issues reported. No anger, anxiety, depression, etc. He got physical once at home during winter break, but that was it. Mom reports he’s helpful at home and gets along with family members but just leaves without permission and uses marijuana. No history of any significant behavioral problems, teachers report he was respectful when he was attending, he never needed an FBA or behavior support plan.
Mom is aware of the process of getting schools to place him in a residential setting (which generally starts with individual counseling, wraparound program, then residential), so she’s trying to get that started. But because he has no mental health symptoms, I’m going to have to deny educationally related mental health services completely at this time.
He has substance abuse issues, but school mental health is not suitable as primary care to treat substance abuse. Before even conducting this assessment, she was warned that and provided outside resources but she did not follow through on the referral we set up.
I’ve been on good terms with the mom, but I’m expecting a lot of backlash. Are there any good ways you guys know on how to provide a good, justifiable answer that they won’t get mental health services through us?
I apologize if this question is not allowed here. I’m looking to get my teenager help. I have looked into some places and wanted to know if anyone has had a good experience with treatment for yourself or a loved one here in Austin? I have read reviews, but would like to hear from someone that has had positive experience somewhere to help make a choice rather than just randomly picking somewhere based on reviews. Austin is our village, I’m heartbroken for them experiencing this beast especially so young. I need help with making this extremely important choice on a safe place to get them the help they need. Thank you so much in advance and would so appreciate any input or suggestions.
I do have insurance.
So I’m on lamictal, lexapro, Wellbutrin, seroquel to sleep, klonopin, and adderall. I drink a lot. Way too much, especially being on this kind of medication. Not to mention the other night I got wasted and snorted some of my klonopin (just 2 mgs, but it’s still dangerous to mix) but I feel like I’ve been on meds for years and have drank for years(not nearly as much as I do now) but it doesn’t feel like my medication makes any affect when I drink other than a super high tolerance. But snorting benzos while being drunk and mixing those is dangerous, but why don’t I feel like it’s a threat to me? I have to be kidding myself. But it just feels like nothings ever happened before when I’ve mixed so in that moment I’m like fuck it. I’m not invincible and I’m educated in these kinds of things so why do I feel like an exception regardless of knowing the consequences? Have any of you guys ever felt this way?
Edit: I should’ve been more clear. When I mentioned substance abuse, I was referring to alcohol. All of those meds are prescribed. Adderall for my ADHD and klonopin for GAD. And taking those meds, I don’t feel any kind of high or anything, it just makes me normal. I can go without my klonopin. When I snorted it, it was more so just a self destructive act to do because in that moment I just didn’t care
