Help, my 17 year old wants to try acid, has lost all morals and self worth?!
Question: Being a teenager is sooooo hard. I'm 27 now, and when I look back at my teen years, boy, you couldn't pay me a million bucks to go there again! There is so much pressure and so much to live up to, it's nuts. Peers really have a lot of influence on each other, yet know so little. Therefore, I think that the best route to go would be to study up with your teen on the effects of the drug. Acid, ecxtasy, and other drugs that cause those head highs completely screw with and screw up your spinal fluid, which will have life long and long term effects. I took so much ex as a teen that my seratonin levels are practically extinct now and due to that, I have severe mood disorders. Scare tactics with true facts are the best way to get to your teen. They have to see proof that they are risking a hell of a lot when they decide to use crazy drugs. There are many psych. books that will show before and after brain pictures in regards to the use of drugs. There are also a lot of videos by real and trustworthy sources like Discovery, etc. that can show people badly effected by the drug and true to life examples of how the brain and body is put at risk with any use. Scare them is what I suggest, but scare them in a way that will teach them that the risk they run is real. Also, make sure you make it more of an interesting kind of research. If they get bored, you lose them. Maybe you can call the local police dept. and see if they can offer anything such as going to the morgue, or a mental institution to see people that have o.d.'d on acid, and are now nuts. I don't know...if I were a teen and were reaching out to my mom, I'd want her to be cool towards me simply because I let her in, and I'd need to be scared into understanding that acid is no joke.
I took acid 3 times and let me tell you, it was horrible. I had a bad trip each time, and a bad trip is scarier than anything. Plus, you just have to deal with it, and can't do anything about it for hours until the trip is over. Maybe if you also let them know how bad a bad trip is and how easily a good one can turn bad, it will make them scared to try it. Hope I was of some help. Best of luck :)
Answers: Being a teenager is sooooo hard. I'm 27 now, and when I look back at my teen years, boy, you couldn't pay me a million bucks to go there again! There is so much pressure and so much to live up to, it's nuts. Peers really have a lot of influence on each other, yet know so little. Therefore, I think that the best route to go would be to study up with your teen on the effects of the drug. Acid, ecxtasy, and other drugs that cause those head highs completely screw with and screw up your spinal fluid, which will have life long and long term effects. I took so much ex as a teen that my seratonin levels are practically extinct now and due to that, I have severe mood disorders. Scare tactics with true facts are the best way to get to your teen. They have to see proof that they are risking a hell of a lot when they decide to use crazy drugs. There are many psych. books that will show before and after brain pictures in regards to the use of drugs. There are also a lot of videos by real and trustworthy sources like Discovery, etc. that can show people badly effected by the drug and true to life examples of how the brain and body is put at risk with any use. Scare them is what I suggest, but scare them in a way that will teach them that the risk they run is real. Also, make sure you make it more of an interesting kind of research. If they get bored, you lose them. Maybe you can call the local police dept. and see if they can offer anything such as going to the morgue, or a mental institution to see people that have o.d.'d on acid, and are now nuts. I don't know...if I were a teen and were reaching out to my mom, I'd want her to be cool towards me simply because I let her in, and I'd need to be scared into understanding that acid is no joke.
I took acid 3 times and let me tell you, it was horrible. I had a bad trip each time, and a bad trip is scarier than anything. Plus, you just have to deal with it, and can't do anything about it for hours until the trip is over. Maybe if you also let them know how bad a bad trip is and how easily a good one can turn bad, it will make them scared to try it. Hope I was of some help. Best of luck :)
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