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Old 11-05-2008, 10:04 PM   #1 (permalink)
anewLife4me
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IS the behavior pain driven or is he abusing drugs.

What do you do when you have some one who says there in severe pain, but act like their using speed? He had relapsed last year, but now claims he's sober. But his behavior is very much like a speed user. Not sleeping, I mean going days with no sleep. Going out late at night, staying out all night, has weird stories to account for his time. Is under extreme amount of stress, due to money problems, legal issues and divorce. Has been staying with me the ex but I don't want to work things out, and after 20 yrs of marriage its difficult, he can't seem to move on, such as in rebuilding his life. He says he's going to meetings... He's been at my house for the past few months....We have money issues of course..who doesn't right now.
Anyway, this morning I found him at a known drug hangout. I told him he wasn't welcome back in my home. I was real mean, called him a drug addict, and told him he can live on the streets. He swears he's not using, that the pain causes him to not sleep, to act weird.. tweaking on things is what I call it, but not really getting anything done. ... he says he does better up moving around when his back is bothering him. Yet he spends hours I mean HOURS on his lap top, or at the computer. He tells me he leaves for long hours because he's uncomfortable being at home around me, and so he leaves to give me my space. But I'm a sleep at night, he's here during the day! Yet when he's here if he's not cleaning something, he's hiding in the bedroom on the laptop for HOURS. He's not sleeping. I check the history on the computer and see the time hes on it. Computer porn another addiction of his. Also he tells me he had treatment...radiation for Luekemia CCL type in 2005, he was in some trail study. So he says. He says his weird behavior is due to the radiation treatments, he can't think straight, can't seem to think of the right word sometimes, so he is using that as an reason for his strange behavior. I don't know, except my gut is telling me he's using illegal drugs.

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