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Found out my childhood friend / first crush is doing life for attempted robbery and it's really messed me up. (lemmy.cafe)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
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Met him when I was 11 and he was 15. He was the tough kid at school but always nice to me and stood up for younger kids. This experience was so formative, I based a lot of my personality around him.

Tried messaging him again in December but he deleted his account before reading it. Later found out he got arrested for trying to rob his neighbour's house and people were calling him a "smackhead" / heroin addict.

I always knew he was kind of a rebel but I never thought he'd end up like that.

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Opiates are no joke, I was in an accident a year ago were I hurt my back, broke a handful of ribs, collapsed a lung and crushed my right leg. The hardest part of that was coming of that shit after a month, holy shit that was rough. If I didn’t have my wife to support me I would probably be in deep today.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    The removal of pain for a prolonged period of time makes you very weak to it when you come off the drugs. Even the weight of a sheet or the feeling of your teeth touching each other can be unbearable. It can take a long time for your body to get back to normal, but it does eventually happen.

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