He admits to his sister that he tried marijuana.A teen confesses to dad he has been cutting class.One way an addict manipulates is by giving smaller confessions of wrongdoing to different family members to cover his lies and odd behavior. “Impossible! I didn’t raise him to be a drug addict,” is a common refrain from a parent.īecause parents aren’t educated about the root causes of addiction, which can include early exposure to alcohol, illicit, or prescription drugs, they can’t even begin to imagine that their child might be hooked. Parents are often the easiest target for manipulation because oftentimes they cannot imagine that their beloved child is hostage to drugs or alcohol. No one is more likely to be manipulated by an addict than the people closest to them.
You may even question your own perception of the situation. The addicted brain acts from that same place of fear and desperation.”Įven with that knowledge, it’s scary to watch an addict lie right to your face so convincingly that you start to believe them. And what would you do if you hadn’t eaten for five days? You’d probably break into someone’s house and steal their food. And that includes lying to anyone who stands in the way of the drugs they so desperately seek.Īs Townsend explains, “The brain is telling the body that it’s going to die. The addicted person’s most basic need-to survive-drives the need for mood or mind-altering substances at any price. “The primitive limbic system seeks drugs at any price, and the rational, caring, empathetic prefrontal cortex is silenced.” “When a person is addicted, the primitive survival part of the brain is in the driver’s seat,” explains board-registered interventionist and family recovery coach Ricki Townsend. Their lies are driven by their brain’s incessant demand for chemicals to soothe the survival part of the brain, which is hijacked in addiction. But it’s not necessarily out of malice or ill intent. Here are seven of the most terrifying, but common, behaviors of an addict. There are few things more devastating than having a front-row view of an active addiction.
The feelings of frustration, sadness, anger, and helplessness can be overwhelming as you watch someone transform before your eyes into an entirely different person. Living with a loved one’s addiction can be one of the most horrifying experiences anyone can ever go through.
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