ESL therapy with Emilia
August 11th, 2008 by Emilia
It’s past midnight in Brooklyn and I just had an epiphany. Intervention is my favorite TV show of all time. Yes, and I can express this freely and without any trace of guilt because I am 100% certain my reasons are pretty f ing pure and honorable. Therefore, here they are: I love this show, not because I enjoy watching other people’s suffering or because it feels amazing to realize how great my life is in comparison to everyone that is featured on it, but because I believe there is not other show out there -and certainly not other reality show- that displays humanity to such an extreme and astounding level as Intervention does. And yes, in case you were wondering, this IS a good thing. It’s about families and friends being there for each other and in the end, nothing can’t beat that. Ever.
What strikes me the most, and the main reason why I enjoy this show so much, is that when you put someone’s problems in perspective they seem so simple to solve! It’s like,”Oh so you are a bulimic crackhead with an abusive husband? Just ditch the mf’er, stop throwing up after every meal, and sign yourself to rehab. Taaadaaaah! Problems solved. See? It’s easy!
Now, if you apply this reasoning to your own and not so complicated problems, it’s like 1000 times better! So your boyfriend cheated on you? Whatever! There’re just like 2000 other guys willing to date you! You think you’re too fat? Go to the gym and stop eating for a couple of weeks! Or date someone fatter than you! Someone in your family died? So will you someday! Big fucking deal!
It’s all about perspective. P-e-r-s-p-e-c-t-i-v-e. Thank you reality TV. Thank you for teaching me lessons everyday. Adios.
no. iv been intervened (twice in two years bitchezz). that shit is embarrassing and annoying.
MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BIZNESS!!!- snitches end up in ditches if you know what im saying
i’m with you emilia.
i think looking at your own problems from the perspective of them not being your problems it makes everything just a lil’ bit easier.
if i ever had to get intervened i would want the missbehave gals to do it.
Again, akapluto, you are absurd and I can smell your attitude from over here. You can barely call someone who wants you to stop using drugs “a snitch”. Maybe you have a DRUG PROBLEM.
Try to keep the internet stabbings at a minimum.
aah DOODOO, i can see youre a very serious gal so i sincerely apologize if i offended your sensibilities. blogging is a very demure and indispensable business and i shall try to keep that under advisement.
ps- theres no much thing as a drug PROBLEM
such*… because I am an idiot
she’s right it’s not a problem…it’s a addiction. there are no two ways about that, you either take the help or you don’t and if you don’t maybe you won’t get into the trouble that WILL find you today….but on that day you will wish those people who embarrassed and anoyed you were on your back right then and there.
I had a drug problem. It was pretty bad. It interferred with EVERYTHING in my life. With my relationships, my family, my work, my writing, but more than that, it interferred with my happiness and peace of mind. I was miserable and out of control.
Somehow, I ended up in this outpatient rehab group counselling. It was me, and 16 grown men. I will tell you, it was everything and nothing like I would have imagined. It was everything you saw in the movies, and nothing like you expected to feel and think. As the night grew on, the room got more putrid from the rotting souls and bodies of men who had virtually all but given up. And then at the end, we went around the room to do “check in”. By the time they got to me, I burst into tears, having absorbed all of their sadness, anger, frustration, lost hopes, and the consequences of their actions.
I left the group that night feeling like I had so much to live for, so much in my life not to do drugs for and that I was fucking it all up. It sounds cliche, but it’s how I felt and still feel.
That was 90 days tomorrow. And I never went back to group after that. Nor have I touched another drug since. And I am so fucking happy and clear and strong right now. It was hard shit in the interim and it still is, but I am fucking happy and my moods are now managable for once. I am bigger than my problems.
I hope everyone is able to overcome.
Basically, to be true, I am a recovering addict and it literally is one fucking day at a time.
I don’t know how I feel about this whole “addiction” thing. Yeah, I’ve had problems over-enjoying alcohol and starving myself until I could count my teeth thru my skin but… I’ve (mostly) gotten over them through my own damn determination. NOW I know I can’t do 15 shots a day. NOW I know if go to class high all the time I’ll fail and get suspended. NOW I know that it is impossible to think, breathe, sleep or move when you weigh 97 pounds. And I figured all that shit out—on my own. Having 14 people sit me down and tell me to stop didn’t have a damn thing to do with it. Rehab doesn’t work unless you really want to stay clean and if you do really want it, then you don’t fucking need rehab. I still drink up to my eyeballs and fast for days at time every other week. Quitters never win. Abandoning your vices is sooo not necessary
It’s my fucking life and my goddamn body. So if I’m supporting myself, I’m gonna do whatever the hell I wanna do and you better believe I’m gonna live every god damn minute just the way I say I should.
akapluto - how fucking old are you? You sound like a 15yr old trying to defend you drug problem.
ITS MY BODY AND IF I WANT TO SNORT COCAINE FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT I CAN.
Abandoning vices is necessary at times. Can someone with a brain regarding drug addiction[lesley arffin plz] come in here?
“Quitters never win” yeah um tell that to every friend of mine that is dead from overdosing. Tell that to ever crackhead whose life never went anywhere.
I quit my drug addiction and my life has been amazing ever since, I would say I’m winning a lot more than I was when I was all about getting high.
im not going to even get into this discussion between akapluto and doodoo because im not sure where to begin. i am going to say that i fucking live for intervention on a&e. to really get into the psyche’s (sp?) of different people from across the country is so interesting to me. every single person is so different, yet we all struggle with the exact same issues.
Also I watch intervention, it’s interesting but you have to question a lot of things regarding that show. Certain camera shots are just a little to perfect, and sometimes there are times where the camera should be put down and stop someone from hurting themselves and others[although I have seen them do this once or twice].
“What strikes me the most, and the main reason why I enjoy this show so much, is that when you put someone’s problems in perspective they seem so simple to solve! It’s like,”Oh so you are a bulimic crackhead with an abusive husband? Just ditch the mf’er, stop throwing up after every meal, and sign yourself to rehab. Taaadaaaah! Problems solved. See? It’s easy!”
It’s actually not that easy at all. Anyone can tell you it’s something you will battle and deal with everyday for the rest of you life. Reading that as a former drug addict made wanna puke.
Regarding interventions not on tv, I’ve had one and I’ve performed them, they don’t always work. It’s pretty heartbreaking at 16 trying to explain to your best friends parents that their daughter has a pcp problem. And to see them not clean 4 years later still…
Akapluto have fun drinking beyond moderation, being anorexic and whatever it is the cool kids are doing these days…maybe one day you’ll stop being selfish and look outside yourself and realize what you’re doing to your friends and family. And your body.
All I’m saying, you judgmental cocks, is that having an addiction is an insanely subjective thing and you can’t really escape unless you have a fucking will of steel and you actually want to be sober/healthy/whatever. That’s why half of the people on that show end up dropping out of rehab or relapsing immediately afterwards.
Everyone does fucked up shit to themselves like going to church and eating their hair. Sorry if my method of masochism doesn’t fit your rosy sheltered ass fucking view of life. You have to hit rock bottom before you decide to completely reverse your lifestyle, abandon your drug-addled friends, and start from square 1—and I’m having too much fun living MY life to tear the shit up and start all over again.
So I guess what I’m really trying to say is, “Okay, whatever.”
Over this.
Lol at rosy sheltered ass fucking view of life, I’m the least sheltered person you’d ever meet. I work in nightlife and the adult industry - I see addicts regularly.
I actually managed to quit doing cocaine and other drugs and despite having a severe addiction I didn’t start from square one - I have many of the same friends, and my lifestyle is still pretty similar. Masochism isn’t being an addict.
You’re an idiot. Hopefully you realize this before you hit 21.
“Lol at rosy sheltered ass fucking view of life, I’m the least sheltered person you’d ever meet. I work in nightlife and the adult industry - I see addicts regularly.
I actually managed to quit doing cocaine and other drugs and despite having a severe addiction I didn’t start from square one - I have many of the same friends, and my lifestyle is still pretty similar. Masochism isn’t being an addict.
You’re an idiot. Hopefully you realize this before you hit 21.”
baby sinead, <3s for you.
As someone who is familiar with this whole scene, I can say that ganing up on someone and giving the whole tough love approach makes them want to drink/snort/whatever that much more. It works the same way that jealousy does - backwards. Akapluto will get help when SHE wants to get help not because YOU think she should or that you feel guilty because if you don’t intervene that you’ll have it on your conscience. You’re not her parents or her family, you are random commenters. I didn’t want help and was intervened, talk to, screamed at over and over, and to no avail. It doesn’t make the situation better but you’re trying to pull the sword out of a stone that will never budge. Unless those of you who are ragging on her have been through this, please stop. And don’t for one minute think that I am condoning anything. I’ll bet that this approach helps her more than yours.
@ BabySinead, I will agree with you about winning a lot more than when you were high. After slogging through the wasteland of quitting drugs, when you get cleaned up, life is so much better. It’s a constant struggle, but I agree with you that I am a lot more happy now than I was then, thinking that being sober was the worst thing ever.
“Everyone does fucked up shit to themselves like going to church and eating their hair”
This is true too. Everything is a drug and everything can become an addiction. God is a drug, sugar, caffeine, biting one’s nails, chewing on your lips and the insides of your cheeks. None of it’s healthy, but every person on this earth has at least one unhealthy addiction, and when I put that into perspective, I felt a lot better. Especially when people get up on their high horse and are all, “I don’t do drugs, I don’t drink” meanwhile they go home every night and eat handfuls of mayonnaise out of the jar while they watch Richard Simmons.
this is me going against my better judgment and continuing this completely pointless conversation. but.. im 20 and i go to a top tier university. i have a 3.78 gpa and currently have two internships at the best damn book & magazine publishing company in the us.
youre a stripper.. congratulations
and masochism has more than one definition.. you tard. it also involves acts of self-destruction and purposely subjecting oneself to unpleasant experiences
@akapluto: dude, that’s great! Which publishing companies? I work for a canadian university press and while it is in my field - publishing, I want to get into something more commercial. Do you like it so far?
“As someone who is familiar with this whole scene, I can say that ganing up on someone and giving the whole tough love approach makes them want to drink/snort/whatever that much more. It works the same way that jealousy does - backwards. Akapluto will get help when SHE wants to get help not because YOU think she should or that you feel guilty because if you don’t intervene that you’ll have it on your conscience. You’re not her parents or her family, you are random commenters. I didn’t want help and was intervened, talk to, screamed at over and over, and to no avail. It doesn’t make the situation better but you’re trying to pull the sword out of a stone that will never budge. Unless those of you who are ragging on her have been through this, please stop. And don’t for one minute think that I am condoning anything. I’ll bet that this approach helps her more than yours.
Personally I got my shit together when people were like YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. Sometimes tough[And I MEAN REALLY TOUGH] love is what gets people clean.
And welcome to free speech - girl is acting like an idiot I call her out on it. She can go do drugz and not eat and have her uhhh “good times?” I’m gonna comment on it.
“Everyone does fucked up shit to themselves like going to church and eating their hair”
This is a serious underestimate of the medically proven additive quality of certain drugs. Eating hair is not like shooting heroin.
Akapluto I’m not a stripper, I’m a model, pornstar, photographer, writer, creative director for a site. And I’m 20 too.
If your idea of masochism is subjecting yourself to dangerous chemicals and starving - have fun. Like you said it’s your body, do what you want. Congrats on you gpa! What are these “best damn” internships you speak of….how would they feel about your drug abuse?
finding out that least career/education wise you seem to be doing fine, and that your drug use or whatever the hell else is affecting it…keep on keepin on, sister.
sorry im eating a fatty slice of pizza as im typing this, i meant to say that if your addictions are NOT affecting your career or anything else, then youre golden.
WHYYYYYY so serious????????
@DooDoo: Hahahahaha!
Considering this site is losing journalistic integrity by the minute maybe the editors should think why.
i’m watching intervention right this second, i thought i had a lot to say, but i got sidetracked by all the comment drama.
@baby sinead. Blogs are not supposed to have journalistic integrity. People talk about their lives/opinions on them, so they are always being subjective (as opposed to the objectivity that real journalism requires).If you want “journalistic integrity” go read the New York TImes or something. Thanks.
I do read the times, thanks.
I’m just pointing out that this mag is quickly becoming a joke, it’s a good mag don’t let bad blogs ruin it. If you’re magazines website is a blog[and you’re making ad money off it] it might be smart think about posts.
Maybe I’m being a cunt but if your repping something[aka this mag] rep it in a good way.
Yes, you’re being a cunt. But you’re right, maybe I should go rep your porn-site instead?
I’m not the one spending 8 hours with strange men letting them grope me for free thinking it will score me a major movie role. It’s funny unless people cry along with you you accuse them of being judgmental. When in reality you made a dumb move and let a scumbag do scummy things to you.
wrong post wrong comment up there
fuck waking up early.
Anyways Im being a cunt but you’re being an idiot. I rather be a cunt. All about personal preferences I suppose.
I stand by my reping the site in the wrong way. You won’t catch me repping my companies on my blog in the wrong way.
PS next time you attempt to insult me try a little harder than something porn related
PORN!
I live with my aunt, step-uncle, and cousins. My cousin/best friend is 17 and snorts ketamine while driving to work in the morning. This is his normal routine. He’s been to $20,000 rehab three times, and attended a private reform school which his parents probably spent over 60 grand on per year.. which only increased his drug use. He also consumes a plethora of other drugs in conjunction with one another : lsd, mdma, mushrooms etc. on an almost daily basis.
He’s super functional and I let him drive me places. I truthfully don’t even think he has a real problem. My relatives are insistent on staging an intervention, and shipping him off again…rather than discovering the underlying issues/ a solution. I mean, they pay for his rehab with his dead dad’s insurance money. But MYYYY opinion is unwelcome.
BabySinhead I think I love you… REALTALK!
Keith stop hitting on girls on the blog. It’s unprofessional. Plus, you have a GIRLFRIEND. My roommate, your GIRLFRIEND. Yes. So shut it.
Now this thread is just hilarious.
this seems to have gone well!