{"id":722,"date":"2025-01-18T07:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T12:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2025-01-18T07:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T12:40:06","slug":"sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>18 days into dry january and so far, it hasn&#8217;t been particularly challenging.  well, that is to say, abstaining from alcohol and cannabis hasn&#8217;t been challenging.  what is phenomenally challenging however is dealing with good friends who are heavily intoxicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that experience has been actually rather upsetting.  especially when someone i care about is flirting with self destruction due to consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>last night the boys came by to jam, we all had a great time, most of the gang were quite tame. a couple drinks and one 420 break. everyone was feeling good but not wrecked.  meanwhile i stuck to redbull, water and 2 corona 0.0% sunbrews (which are actually pretty convincingly corona&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>however j, on the other hand, decided it would be a good idea to guzzle down 4 large cans of high alcohol beer, have 2 healthy glasses of whiskey, eat an inappropriately large amount of psylocibin mushrooms and then top it all of by smoking 2 joints. all in a 3 hour period. to say he was inebriated would be a massive understatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i&#8217;m worried about him.  i really am.  i don&#8217;t know what to do about it either.  i tried telling him, i tried reasoning with him, i tried even guilting him, all of it went completely unregistered.  in one ear and out the other.  and even worse is that it was followed with a &#8220;you don&#8217;t understand what i am going through, i need this&#8221;&#8230;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>mother fucker.  if there is ANYONE who understands EXACTLY what you are going through right now, it&#8217;s me.  don&#8217;t give me that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he&#8217;s been my best friend for over 30 years and he&#8217;s going to kill himself if he continues down this path and i don&#8217;t know how to help him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 days into dry january and so far, it hasn&#8217;t been particularly challenging. well, that is to say, abstaining from alcohol and cannabis hasn&#8217;t been challenging. what is phenomenally challenging however is dealing with good friends who are heavily intoxicated. that experience has been actually rather upsetting. especially when someone i care about is flirting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">sobriety<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}