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The best thing that family can do for a substance abuser is stage an intervention. Once that intervention has been staged, present the abuser with the opportunity to go to rehab.
Yes. It harms the family and friends of the drug abuser. Also, if anyone looks up to that person, they could do the same thing.
Often the best thing to do with a drug abuser is an intervention where those that love him or her tell them how the addiction is affecting them. Counseling or halfway houses are an option as well.
The first - crucial - steps are to acknowledge that he is abuser and seek help. Abusers are usually in denial: If the abuser is also a narcissist (suffers from the Narcissistic Personality Disorder - NPD), this may be of some assistance:
You definitely did the right thing by putting your abuser in jail. He was putting your in harm's way and putting himself in harm's way. You are safer now that he is behind bars. Hopefully, you will continue to distance yourself from him, espeically if he is released from jail for some reason.
He'll react like the abuser he is. You've allowed his abusive behavior on you, and he'll respond to you as he always does. Do you think that by leaving him that he'll just goes away? You're whistling in the dark. The only way to dump him is to put a barrier between the two of you - a person or distance. WHY CARE the key thing is an abuser... do you really want that type of a relationship? gotta take care of your self first.
No he is not a child abuser.
Love Your Abuser was created on 2007-01-30.
Give him time. He will.
That would depend entirely on the nature of the abuse and the jurisdiction. Probably not.
Love Your Abuser Remixed was created on 2008-09-23.
If someone is abusing you over the phone then the first thing you can do is ask them to stop the abuse. If they will not stop the abuse then you can warn them you will stop the call. If that will stop the abuse then disconnect the abuser and tell your supervisor who was the person who was abusing you. In responsible companies some supervisors will ring the abuser to find out why they were abusing you and what will be done to those people if the abuse happens again