My friend has a SERIOUS problem

[Paladino]

To start the story off, we have to go back to 2012. That's when he started taking ecstasy regularly. Now for the best part of two years my friend has been taking ecstasy EVERY weekend(Friday & Saturday nights) and occassionally during the week as well. His sister is my girlfriend, and we have both tried to tell him how fucked up this is going to make him. I mean I have noticed SEVERE changes in him the day after he takes them, he acts very weird and stuff and takes a few days to go back to reality but he still has changed in a way since he first started, his personality is different, its hard to describe but I'm sure you can imagine. Everybody close to him has told him to calm down on them and he even knows his self he has to, but he CANT. He loves them too much and hardly has a good time at the weekends without them. I mean I depend on alcohol at the weekends to make me have a good time when I'm surrounded with people that are full of drugs. I take them sometimes, however I keep it to a minimum as much as I can, once every 2 months or so & I believe this will hardly effect my health and mental health as I have read up about it. I know when you take it way too much, like he does in the long run there is a good chance he will develop severe depression, paranoia, schizophrenia or possibly even die(that would probably be his most desired way to die, off his nut on mdma/ecstasy.)

The question I want to ask you all, after two years of taking them every weekend, how long will he have of this behaviour before it starts taking SERIOUS SERIOUS effects on his mental health. He smokes and drinks alcohol as well and with the amount of junk foods easily accessable these days a lot of our generation aren't particularly the fittest/healthiest, he rarely eats junk food though, he eats good food to keep his phsyical health well and he exercises regularly and he hardly drinks fizzy drinks. So, how long?

[Miserabilia]

The thing about a drug like ecstasy is that it has no direct influence on long term health; it just messes your body and mind up everytime you take it, which will be more and more often concidering how much he uses it now.
So it doesn't neccecairly f*ck up his body long term, but it will basicly ruin his life if he takes it alot. It has lots of adverse effects that will make him feel terrible. You can also overdose on it quite easily and the results are NOT pretty and sometimes even lethal.

Ofcourse you've already convinced him to stop but the problem is probably more serious than he can imagine, like, it seriously fucks up people's lives when taken that much.

I'm not speaking of experience (thank god) but I spent quite a bit of time researching drugs once, and this is definetly one that has a lot of downsides.

[James Dean]

The problem really isn't how long. You should act fast and now to help him. Get an intervention going. He needs help with this addiction. It isn't worth waiting or wondering how much time he has until he cracks or whatever. He needs help now and thats what you need to do as a friend is lookout and give him support.

The only thing left is for him to accept and understand his addiction. That is the difficult and hard part. The only way I see this as improving or becoming better for everyone, is just if you talk to him and try to end this right now. Don't wait until it is too late with this.

[Paladino]

The problem really isn't how long. You should act fast and now to help him. Get an intervention going. He needs help with this addiction. It isn't worth waiting or wondering how much time he has until he cracks or whatever. He needs help now and thats what you need to do as a friend is lookout and give him support.

The only thing left is for him to accept and understand his addiction. That is the difficult and hard part. The only way I see this as improving or becoming better for everyone, is just if you talk to him and try to end this right now. Don't wait until it is too late with this.

Everyone has tried to stop him, its physically impossible, he just will never listen ever believe me. Ecstasy isn't really addictive, he just LOVES taking it way too much and he's accepted he isn't really going anywhere in life he told me that last night, I told him he would be able to a get a job somewhere and he said he doesn't even want one.

[James Dean]

Everyone has tried to stop him, its physically impossible, he just will never listen ever believe me. Ecstasy isn't really addictive, he just LOVES taking it way too much and he's accepted he isn't really going anywhere in life he told me that last night, I told him he would be able to a get a job somewhere and he said he doesn't even want one.

Things like that take awhile. Eventually he will seek to a point to where it will click to him that he has an issue. Until then, just stick to his side and be his support system. Don't give into him that easy and go into excuses. I said before, don't wait until it's too late to offer him help. Talk to him and try to see his side of it. I know you can do this, it's not going to be easy though. Be on his level and try to sympathise with him without rushing things and not understanding his addiction. :)

[Paladino]

I know what you mean, people have just gave up trying to get him to stop even his parents, because of how much he does it.

[randominternetkid]

Mdma is actually extremely addictive if you take it As Mc as he does. Doing mdma once every month or two won't cause any per meant damage. Usually the day after a roll you feel kinda out of it. Alot of people take certain vitamins before and after they roll to help their bodies get their levels of things back. Mdma causes you to release all of your seretonin(one of the happy chemicals ) which is hard on the brain to get the amount back. You could also take mdma and something else with similar effects and get seretonin syndrom where there is too much seretonin in your body, this can result in kidney failure and death. Your friends seretonin is so depleted by now, as well as probably dopamine and other vital things like b12. The mdma at texts your Bra in alot like a supermega ultra alpha giant anti Depressent, by releasing your seretonin fast and forcing your brain to try to meet the demands. He might have a depression when he hopefully stops from the damage to the receptors. On top of over exerting your brain receptors, depleted hormone and vitamin levels, being extremely addictive, it is also pretty neurotoxic, I don't know exactly how to define that but it is not good. You should get him professional help, give him all the support you can give and hope he recovers well. It will be very hard to stop, but eventually if you use mdma enough it just stops working for you. Good luck to your friend and your family. Pm me if you need to talk about anything

[xxxander]

There are a lot more effects of abusing drugs the worst is when he get overdose from the that he's taking it can be fatal, so you better talk to his parents about his drug addiction