sschm Blog 13

I found the guest speaker on Tuesday really great. The topic is something that currently is affecting my best friend, and something that helped me understand what she's going through. She has began to use drugs and her life has definitely turned for the worse. It's such a hard position to be in and I want nothing more than to help her but I feel there is nothing that I can say or do that make her change her mind. It took me a while to realize that she was seriously using because I didn't want to see it. For a period she would have fallen under the category of "homeless" and was couch surfing. Coming from a well off family and good education, it truly can happen to anyone. I feel like I have just lost my best friend to something that I can't compete against. This isn't the world that I want for me and I'm not playing along with her game which is also distancing our friendship. It's just made me realize that no matter where you are, this is an issue even in Lincoln Nebraska. The addiction affects everyone around the addict, I just wish that they could understand how it affects others.