My brother is a drug addict. A few yesrs agos some signs pointed to drug use with him. His life went downhill from 2019 and a lot of it was due to drugs. For example he would go out at the weekend and eventually come back. His hangovers were not normal hangover and they were more of a crash in the bed for a few days 2/3/4 days. I reckon his girlfriend felt ignored and she probably was ignored many times. Their relationship failed. He kept missing days in work most weeks. He had a Monday to Friday job but after many weekends he wasn't able for Monday and Tuesday work and sometimes even Wednesday work. He lost that job too.
I remember an episode last yesr where he started drinking at home on Thursday evening. He stayed up all night and he was hyper. He showed some weird behaviours on the Friday. I had to go to work but I saw some of it. My mother's heart was broken. He ran around the house in his jocks. There was another episode where he threw cash through our mother's bedroom door. He was hallucinating and turned on our mother for locking him out but she never locked him out (she should have though). There was a range of weird behaviours. He eventually went to bed on Friday night and there he stayed for a week. He avoided the family during his come down from drugs. He often does that.
I have no doubt in my mind that spell and other spells were fuelled by drugs. The signs point to speed and mephedrone drugs and cannabis outside of the harder drugs. The man is an addict.
I'm writing here today because there's another new spell. He was drinking on Sunday evening and Sunday night. It was at home drinking. He didn't go out with uis friends. I was at work so I didn't see his state. He spent the past two days in bed and he's still in bed.
My mother is adamant the drinks he had on Sunday didn't agree with him and that's the reason he's in bed. My mother is completely in denial about this. This isn't the first episode from my brother and past episodes from him were fuelled by drugs. I have no doubt in my mind he was taking drugs at home on Sunday night.
After all these years and all the shit my brother threw at us with his drunk/drug fuelled episodes and crashes lasting days, she is still in denial.
This is more of a vent or a rant. Has anyone else dealt with denial?