How bad do drugs mess a person up?

Question

Do drugs and alcohol majorly affect a persons thinking?
Will they make irrational decisions?
Will they push away people that love them?
Will they tell people they don't love them?
Please help me understand these things.

When will they realize what is going wrong?
Will they regret what they have done?

Please someone with experience help.

Answer 1

drugs and alcohol can majorly affect a persons thinking depending on the level of that persons dependancy, their tolerance level, amount of substance in the system, frecuency of use etc.
addicts make irrational descions CONSTANTLY wether under the influence or not.
people under the influence often make irrational decisions.
"the defense mechanism" causes users to push people away who get in the way of their use ESPECIALLY if those people love them.
all adicts have some degree of a "relationship" with their drug or drugs the way the brain of the addict views the substance is litteraly the same as they view real people... however they are addicted to the substance so they give it more face time... it is their partner before anyone or anything.
they will tell everyone they don't love them especially if the person that they "don't love" gets in the way of their use.
they will not realize what is going wrong... to some degree they will know what is going wrong and they will feel bad even but their addiction will blind them to the pain of what is going wrong.. and they won't do anything to stop what is going wrong if it interfears with their use.
they will regret what they have done and it will cause them to use more frequently to deal with the guilt. that is part of the cycle of addiction.
but there is hope people recover all the time... but it is something that they have to want and strive for themselves. there is nothing that you can do or say to an addict, or experimenter for that matter, to "get them to quit" it is a change that they have to want for themselves. if i were you i would walk away that is the best thing that you can do for you and the person... if they truly value your friendship and or love then they will desire to change themselves but i have seen use tear apart many relationships hundreds actually... but i have never seen a boy friend/ girlfriend or even marriage cure an addiction. You can help but my advice is to do so cautiously because you can get preoccupied with their use and that is the first step to personal use if i had more info i could give more advice but sometimes i guess you gotta keep i vague cause it hurts to talk about... i really mean it when i say this though: SEEK COUNSELING! some people think that counseling is for suckers or lozers but the stuff that you learn through counseling helps more than you can imagine

Answer 2

Drugs and alcohol can majorly affect a person's thinking. It depends on the individual and other varying factors (environment, personality, etc.). They can make very irrational decisions which goes into pushing away people that they love. My current boyfriend was on drugs when we first began to date. I didn't know at the time, but when the truth finally came out, we'd end up in arguments about it. He would act like a totally different person...irrational reasoning and saying that he didn't care about anything, but the drugs. Now that he's gone through rehab and he's sober, I've come to understand a little bit better about how drugs affected him. He explained to me that even though he knew he shouldn't have done them and that he would be disappointing his family and myself, nothing mattered once he had the drugs sitting in front of him. It was like a magnet for him and he didn't have enough will power to say no. Some people do realize that what they have done is wrong...whether it be after sobering up or after entering rehab. Most probably regret their actions and behavior. Some don't. It just depends on the individual. I used to have the same questions as you so I hope that I've helped.

Answer 3

Hi, I am currently studying drug and alcohol work and have had personal experience in life with substance abuse. Yes, no matter what substance a person uses weather it be drugs or alcohol, in excessive consumption it will affect a person perception. The mind controls the body, the way our body moves, the way we feel and most importantly the way we view life. Drugs and alcohol work directly on a persons senses and literally changes the chemical imbalance in our brains. When the chemical balances are imbalanced it affects our entire life cause it affects our body and our thoughts. Most people do immorally wrong things under the influence of many different substances because they are not thinking rationally. This is what substances do, they make us believe things we are doing are fine, exciting and can make us do things we don’t even realise we are doing. If a person is an extreme substance abuser they may slip into an induced psychosis that can have many consequences cause our body is so out of whack. This can include emotional out bursts, violent tendencies, depression and can lead to permanent damage to our body including schizophrenia. People don’t always realise they have done wrong, they don’t always realise the impact they have on those around them and sometimes they don’t want to change. We cannot change another persons behavior, only our own. If a person does choose to change their life for the better they can regret their behavior or accept it and learn from it. This is where many people who have been through difficult stages in life decide to go into the community services industry, because they can relate, empathise and offer advice and support to people going through the same or a similar situation. Hope that helps!

Answer 4

The effects of a drug on a person depends on the person, but, more importantly, the drug. Things such as pot have a more drastic effect on the mind than do cigarettes. The person would push away loving people usually if people are always nagging them. A way of going about this is to tell these people he/she doesn't love them to just get them off their back. They'll realize what's going wrong not when they decide to quit, but when they find a reason to quit. Unfortunately, for some, this realization never arrives or arrives while in their death bed. If people quit, regret is definitely felt. Otherwise, they wouldn't be trying to stop. However, some people who are addicted may also feel regret at the same time, but are without enough self-will to quit. Hope this helped.

Answer 5

Some people are not going to try to tell you the real deal simply because it get's to close to home but I am going to tell you a couple of things that has happened in my life.

For starters it depends on the individual that is using drugs or alcohol that causes them to go overboard. Some people are very weak minded and they have problems before the started to do the alcohol thing and drug thing. See I used drugs before (maraijuana and drank alcohol too!) but it didn't mess me up and I didn't let it control me I controlled it! See if you let something control you to a point then of course you will grow into a dependency on that depending on what it is that you are using.

Remember it really depends on the person that has been drinking or using drugs whether or not they will be alright or not. Another thing when they do something to people or say something to people they don't have any idea what they are doing at that moment whether or not they will realize that they are doing anything wrong well that will depend on time dear and whether or not that they want to change and clean themselves up or not.

If you should know anyone that is like that my advice to you is stay away from them and let them deal with it on their own. Sometimes telling a person about there habit will not get the results that you want you must let them learn and see for themselves what they have done.

Answer 6

Are you serious?
Well here goes.
The potential for devastation in obvious and in innocuous ways is extreme. The key word is potential.
Yes they effect a persons thinking.
Drugs, alcohol, and irrational or dangerous decisions go hand in hand.
People who become victims (no such thing as a victimless crime when it comes to drugs) of drugs and alcohol will isolate themselves from the very people who love them the most and the truest; usually with lies, deceit, theft, ...
They will reject their loved ones to continue living their life of self destruction.
There's little that can be said that will help you understand. When people start using drugs they also start surrounding themselves with other drug users. This becomes their new reality and it is filled with invalid rationalizations that sound great to their new paradigm or way of thinking.
There is no telling when, or if, they will realize what is going wrong. You can only hope that one day they wake up and see the errors of their ways.
They will most certainly, if they survive and come out healthy, regret much of what they have done, but they will try to suppress most of the dreary life they've led prior to their reawakening.

Something tells me that you already know the answer to all these questions, so I'm a little confused as to why you asked them. Who's reading YA that's going to see that these answers apply to themselves?

Answer 7

Yes, to all of those things, and more.
Drugs are very dangerous, they can cause very psychotic, paranoid behavior that can be extremely dangerous, especially if you are dealing with someone that has been using for a long time.
some of the most dangerous can be meth, cocaine, things like this, but an alcoholic can be just as dangerous.
Sometimes, they never realize what is going on. sometimes it takes a near death experience, either by being close to overdosing or by being in a deadly situation to wake them up.
sometimes you can get through by intervention, but usually it is a personal thing.
Rehabs work only if the person is willing to change their behavior. I've known people to get out of INTENSE rehab and score within the hour.
If the person you are talking about comes clean, yes, they will regret what they have done, and they will need to reconcile. Most of the time it is very painful to look back on a life of drug abuse and to look at all the damage that has occured.
It's a hard road.
Is it impossible to recover from a situation like you are describing?
No, it's not impossible, but it is hard.
the most successful rehabilitated drug abusers are ones that relied on God to pull them through.
you were looking for someone with experience?
You found one.

Answer 8

Drugs can mess a person really bad in the head and physically. Most of the time people can do it physically but mentally they need the drug. When u take a drug your body over time will get used to it and crave it like cafinee in sodas. The thing with the sodas is a headache when u don't get it. With a drug it starts out minor but becomes more and more intense. Also when u start one drug u get immune to say to that drug and want to try a heavier drug which leads into some troubles. It is very hard to get a person off a drug. Rehad the average people that go in 10% success right which is low. The best thing to do is not to start the drug. Drugs also makes your brain less dense and loosens your connectors responding to your nerves. This causes during withdrawals shaking and nervousness wanting that drug. Hopefully this helped a bit. laters

Answer 9

The answer to all of your questions is yes. An addict never realizes what's going wrong until they get help. Some regret it, some do but don't say so. My son's friend is so messed up from doing all kinds of drugs and alcohol that he's barely understandable. He's only 21.

Answer 10

Yes to all of the above, except the last two questions. You can't realize what's going on with your brain once it's fried, and you cannot regret any action you've taken once you're dead.

Some people cannot handle themselves normally, even without drugs. Some normal people can handle drugs, and still operate wtihout losing control. Some people absolutely need prescription drugs to fuction normally.

But generally speaking, recreational drug use is a waste of time and money. And life.