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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, March 16, 2009 - 4:20 pm
I'm watching one about an Iraq veteran right now. Very very sad. I wish he could have gotten help from the VA or something before this happened.
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Tuesday, June 09, 2009 - 12:58 pm
Wow, that was a really interesting one with the twins last night. What a very complex relationship between the two of them. Hope they continue on the path to good health.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-05-2007
| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 4:34 pm
This will come across as terrible, I am the last one to make fun of people that were obviously sick. But, those twins reminded me of like a made up character(s) in a Tim Burton movie. No doubt they were very sick and I am glad they got help but it was very strange to watch. I am with you, I hope that they continue on in a healthy way. I felt for the parents on this one.
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 7:54 pm
It was good strategy of Ken Seeley (interventionist) to get the girls to each agree to treatment without knowing where the other twin was headed. They can be treated separately in the same facility, and then be brought together for group counseling in order to begin untangling their complicated inter-relationship. My DH and I have watched this series for quite a while. It's always interesting, sad, and once in a while I feel like someone's actually turned the corner and broken his/her addiction for good. There are so many who relapse, though.
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 7:59 pm
Jodie, I haven't been able to get past what happened to me when I was young, either, and I resent people telling me to "get over it," too. It's just not that simple. What a mess my life has been--and I attribute it to sexual abuse (date rape) at age 14. Get over it? I can't. I'm 47, and it colors everything I've ever been through, changed me at the very core of my being, and not in a good way.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 8:02 am
It was such a hard show to watch last night. His children pleading for him to stop drinking. And then to get that smack at the end that said he found out he had cancer and died 3 weeks after his rehab, was too much! I lost it with his son crying at the end.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 8:14 am
I am so glad that somebody else watched that show...that was so incredibly sad. But the joy in his children's face at the end when they said that their father died sober was lovely to see...at least they had a few weeks of their father and for them that was better than a lifetime of living with a drunk (who probably would have never gotten diagnosed if he hadn't gone into treatment in the first place). Did you see the one before that? With the good who used to be a chef? I wondered what happened to him and his girlfriend...they never mentioned her at the end.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 8:51 am
I saw the show, too. I hope those children will be o.k., they went through such trauma at the intervention! I didn't care for his friend...her letter to him saying she would take his things from his condo and give them away really seemed way too harsh.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 9:09 am
I realize that was harsh, but perhaps she knew that he was going to be so resistent (and I definitely got the impression that perhaps she owned the condo or was friends with the owner?) and needed to have really tough love...and I loved the fact that she boosted herself through the window so she could go in and get the gun. Let's face it, I've never seen a person act more abusive towards his family at an intervention...I'm sure it has happened and I haven't seen some of them, but he was one nasty piece of work when faced with giving up his drink! He definitely was deep in denial.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 11:14 am
I don't fault her, she was trying to save his life and as long as he has a place stay he wasn't about to move forward. It was very sad that he died, but glad he died sober and his kids have that memory of him.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-05-2007
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 11:18 am
I was hoping someone saw the show. That was the roughest intervention I have ever seen on the show. Those kids, that was just pure honesty and pain. And then bam the ending with his death. I was a wreck after this one last night. The son's quivering lip....
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 11:28 am
Yeah, I just watched this morning and the son just touched my heart.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 11:49 am
He reminded me of Albert Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 12:11 pm
I went on A&E's website and they had a slightly more expanded version of the after-intervention interviews with his family (and then of course I got sucked in and watched a bunch of other ones...LOL). It was still so very sad.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 12:53 pm
What channel is this show on?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 2:42 pm
It is on A&E, Grooch.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 9:44 pm
Hukd, he did look like Albert Ingalls!
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, July 27, 2009 - 6:28 pm
Never cried before the first commercial before, but this woman's husband....god my heart just breaks for him.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, July 27, 2009 - 6:43 pm
You're talking about the percocet woman's husband right? The episode with the alcoholic just prior to this one made me want to pull my hair out.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, July 27, 2009 - 6:51 pm
Yes, sorry. The precocet woman.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, July 27, 2009 - 6:59 pm
He could have a thousand women who would want him, what a guy! I'm hating the mother and father of this girl for enabling her. So the father is threatened with divorce (yeah right, from the woman who gives all of her pills away to her addict daughter) but cuts a deal with her to drink only 10 weeks a year because he "likes his cider" I've had it on pause for a little while because I can't stand the commercials, so now I'll have to go see how it all winds up.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, July 27, 2009 - 7:13 pm
Well, she looked great at the end and really seemed to have her shit together. It was unclear to me how they were treating her depression at the end, if at all. When she ran to meet the kids, and her son was SO observant and happy, I admit it: the waterworks started again. But wow! To find out that she and her hubby have decided to divorce surprised me. It was cute to have a Canadian episode. I love that accent.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, July 27, 2009 - 7:23 pm
I just finished it...I'm also shocked about the divorce. But I suppose years of the pressure he was under and then her coming home a totally different person probably had a lot to do with it. I also wonder whether counseling (that lady said they'd be treating her inner child or whatever) revealed it wasn't true depression, just repressed anger or something, since they didn't mention medication. I'm glad she reconciled with her sister though. Did not like that ending of her father "hasn't decided whether he would drink this year or not" crap. Go ahead and drink, you have a daughter who is a recovering alcoholic and a daughter who just spent 3 months in rehab. He's a toad.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 1:02 am
Wow I was shocked at the ending, too That little boy was amazing, what he said. Was happy to see the sister beam when she heard she was "support" for AA. With all of her symtoms I'd say childhood trauma, probably even more than we heard about.. both daughters had that extreme rage in them The father sucks. Yeah toad works for me, too. Jeff was clearly NOT feeling friendly to the dad.. you're not an alcoholic you are just a drunk. The husband.. wondered if he simply was one who actually did better being the strong one and couldn't take it when she got strong., She looked so good.. I sure hope she keeps it up!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 7:21 am
When little Haiden told his mom thst she got her smile back and he hoped he saw it until the end of time, I just lost it. That's all the reason you need to stay sober right there.
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