I tried watching the show several times. Went to bed depressed every time so I stopped watching. IMA, Since you are an A&E guy, do you watch The First 48??
I used to work at Wafflehouse. I worked with the junkies, and had to put up with their junkie crap. No interest in watching that show.
One waitress at Wafflehouse near the Louisana casinos has a major case of Meth Mouth. I didnt know Wafflehouse was known for hiring junkies.
Never seen that one. I do like all those Bill Curtis Investigative Report-type shows though. Is that what it is?
I remember one that I still wonder if it was an act. It was about a guy addicted to video games. He had a really good-looking blonde girlfriend and he had some martial arts black belt, but he spent literally all his time playing PS2. While he played, his eyes got really big and this maniac grin would spread on his face. When he would get a "kill" or something, he would cackle like the Joker. It was really weird and I haven't seen anything like it except from actors. They also showed this video of him beating some superhard level of Dance Dance Revolution and the guy screamed and celebrated like he'd just scored the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl. In reality, he was alone, playing a children's video game! That image stuck with me.
I never saw that one, but I did see one kind of like it. This lady was addicted to shopping. They would show her walking down the street and stopping in every single store to buy something. She would almost go into a trance while she was looking around the stores. She was spending about $600 in each store and charging it all, of course. Now, I know this can be a problem, but I don’t know that it requires an actual ‘intervention’. Some perfectly healthy lady who is addicted to shopping doesn’t exactly inspire the same kind of empathy that, say a person struggling with an eating disorder does…
I worked at all 3 Lake Chuck WH's, and yeah I'd say about 70% of employees have either a major drug/alcohol problem.The rest are just mentally ill. Managers too... Example... one of the girls I worked with, same schedule for a year, got promoted to store manager. She got fired for riding around with $17000 dollars of store money in the trunk of her car for a month. (twitch! tweak!) She decided to share the fact that she enjoys golden showers. Many other managers I can recall just swiping the cash box and taking off.
I don't watch the show but couldn't help but think of this: <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y7jj-9-idck&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y7jj-9-idck&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> CLASSIC!
I maybe shouldn't have said girl... she's in her mid 30's, and is into skin head guys who kick the crap out of her.
I've never heard of interventions before until recently.. do these things really happen a lot in real life? Usually if one of my friends has a specific problem I'd just go up to him and be like "dude, that's just gross/stupid/dangerous/silly/ghey (depending on what it is)" and that's it.
Well, it's awesome you've got the power to null & void the ghey, but these people are REALLY far gone. Addiction comes in alot of forms and it's a terrible, depressing disease. Watching someone you know experience it is heart wrenching, because you know that no matter how many times they say they're done, they've had enough, whatever...they're not stopping unless they get real help, and they have to want it. They rarely do. Addiction can be far more powerful than love.
When it first came on I watched it all the time but after a while really started to despise the Intervention dude (bald white guy). He was kinda rude to families and had no sympathy whatsoever for the addict. There should be a ClutchFans episode, I can see my family in the room now.
Don't they have to be that way? If the counselor babies the family, he enables them just in the same way that they enable the addict. The whole thing is designed to be harsh and eye opening. Most of these people are in denial. The counselors have to make sure they realize that if they keep up their addiction they will die, and so he forces the family (and then the addict) to make the tough decisions.
I've never seen an episode, the only intervention I've seen is from the clip in the first page and that's a parody. So these people just sit that person with an addiction down and talk to them? How is that gonna help?
Their loved ones all get together and tell the addict why their addiction hurts them, how much they love him, whatever. Then they offer the addict help. If they refuse everyone the addict loves says they will break off all contact with them forever. Everyone sitting around crying and saying that they love them and why they are hurting them is just as much for the family as it is for the addict.
