If You Were Them (Teenager : Teen Drug Use and teen Drinking)

Response of:
http://www.helpyourteens.com/teen_drug_use_and_teen_drinking.html
Term 3 - Blog 1


I would like to share my views regarding the review written by P.U.R.E, an organization working in the field of teen problems.


Summarizing the article, the writer writes that the best way for parents to encounter with drugs and drinking problem is by seeking help from the professionals. In the earlier part of the essay, he mentions the possible causes of it and then he moves on with explaining how momentous the parents' first step is. Then, he concluded the essay by giving his advices, such as sending the teen straight away to a boarding school and residential treatment centre.


And now, in this article I would like to highlight the last point of his essay. Yes, 'sending the teen straight away to a boarding school'. Frankly speaking, I was a bit shocked and disappointed on hearing his opinions.


In my opinion, we must consider the feelings of the victims. Most of the victims that happen to be addicted must be mentally unstable. Hence, it is very crucial to ensure the stability of the mental condition of the victims to avoid things that we would not even dare to contemplate, like suicide for example. As such, by sending the teen to boarding school might give him or her the impression that they are not longer wanted by the family.


Let's try to think from their points of view.


Facing this kind of problem is not an easy burden for human being, moreover for teens. It is not impossible that they would think that everyone is despising them, all people around them hate them, and people who loved them don’t want them anymore. By so, sending them to places away from home, like boarding school, will only verify their ridiculous thought that they are no longer wanted. At this point of moments, could you imagine their feeling?


As a solution, I believe that the best medicine is love. Parents themselves are the ones and only helpers that they need. In my opinion, they should be the one who step up. They should accept the situation and condition, don’t blame the child, and then ask for a warm chat from heart to heart. “Together” is the only way that they may find the ‘ending’, the happy ‘ending’.


If you were them, what would you do when you are trapped alone in the middle of people despising you, giving you no chance to prove you are not that bad?

Wouldn't it be nice if you could ask for someone who loves you to stay beside you?

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