freedomdwarf1
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OP: I have had the misfortune to try and help someone in a similar position. I tried my best by attempting to get them help, jobs, therapy etc. I tried for the best part of 4 years. I invested a lot of time and effort into getting them help. At one stage, being a single guy at the time, I did consider even marrying her to drag her sorry ass into the real world and make something of her (she looked rather pretty and had a good fuckable body!). Trust me, when someone is THIS low and self-destructive, they need professional medical help. Any decent doctor would temporarilly prescribe anti-depressants and refer them to therapy and a psychiatrist/psychologist. Most cases shouldn't take more than a month or two to come through. Also, from my own experience, therapists and psychologists/psychiatrists wouldn't usually require the patient to have someone else with the patient because it's very much a 1-to-1 session - unlike AA where they prefer group therapy; that usually comes much later in the treatment. If you cannot physically take them to the doctor or the therapist and they won't go of their own accord then I'm afraid it really is a lost cause. I had to abandon my friend after 4 years of trying and to this day she is still the same loser and doing even worse things to herself. She is in her mid-30's and looks like an old bag lady of 70+. She spends her time sleeping during the day, turning tricks at night for anyone willing to pay, stealing anything she can get her hands on to sell off to people in the pub, buying drugs to inject herself in really painful places between tricks. She is a sorry state to see now and it breaks my heart to see someone go so low. I've lost count of the number of times I've had police interviews because I was the last one to see her and she'd been caught at doing something illegal and was either being held in the cells or at a hospital. I shan't go into details but suffice to say I ended up in court for aiding and abetting her to dispose of a dead body (one of her tricks died on her through a drugs O/D). And would you believe she even tried to sell me the guys mobile phone she stole off him!! Fortunately for me, the judge gave me a caution and I was bound over for 12 months with a comment of "don't be such a white knight in shining armour in a rush to help". I could have gone to jail, lost my job and my self-respect as well as getting a criminal record. Nobody can say I didn't do my utmost for this girl... But you can only do so much. If they really can't help themselves then you cannot help them any more than you already have. Many on this board are US based; I am in the UK and have first-hand experience of this dilema. I would cut the strings and let them go.... Seriously.
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