AboutJurriaan Plesman Expertise I have a degree in Psychology from the Sydney University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition.
I am also the author of “GETTING OFF THE HOOK” which deals with the nutritional and psychological treatment of personality disorders. It is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search.
I am interested in the relationship between nutrition and behaviour, and as a Probation ans Parole Officer facilitated groups for offenders, many of whom were alcoholics and drug addicts, sex offenders or compulsive gamblers, as well as the whole gamut of “personality disorders”.
I am also the editor of the Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia Newsletter, a quarterly publication dealing with hypoglycemia and related health problems.
Its web site, together with a shortened course of PSYCHOTHERAPY can be visited at:
Degrees & Certifications: BA (Psychology) Sydney University and Post Grad Dipl Clin Nutr
Web page: http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Experience Psychotherapist
Organizations The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Publications GETTING OFF THE HOOK which is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search.
Various articles in Hypoglycemic Health Association Newsletter
Education/Credentials BA(Psych), Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr
Question Hey my names olivia. I have been going out with this guy for about 2 months and we have fallen in love. Just a couple days ago he came out and told me that he was addicted to oxycotten and that he had been doing it the whole time we were together. He told me from the beginning that he used to be addicted to meth and oxycotten but that he had been clean for 3 years. So basically, our whole relationship was a lie. I never trusted him after he told me about his past and he always gave me crap about not trusting him for no reason. He was always pawning tools and going out of the room when he got a phone call. He was really shady. I found some papers that said he was in debt for Money Tree and Check Masters (all those money in advance places) so I had an idea that he was doing something bad but didn't want to believe myself. He finally told me that he did it a couple weeks ago and then the day after he came out and told me that he was addicted again. I cant see how he could lie to me the whole time we were together. And he told me that he loved me. I'm only 17 about to turn 18 and graduate high school and he's been nothing but a distraction. But I do love him and I don't know how to help him with his addiction. He's about to go to Alaska in a couple weeks and that when he says he'll stop and detox and be fine. He also told me that he's stopping for me right now (yesterday) and Its so hard for me to trust him or believe anything he tells me. I just don't know if I should stay with him and believe him or just break it completely off because of the way he treated me?? I hope you don't mind that I wrote you all this stuff. It made me feel better to type it all down. So hopefully you can help me make a wise decision.
Answer Dear Olivia,
I must say that falling in love with a drug addict can be very dangerous to you. Drug addiction is not an illness, that can be stopped by sheer will power alone, because it is a disease in the literal sense of the word, that is very hard to treat. Very few people recover from drug addiction. Drug addicts will lie and manipulate other people, especially loved ones, to hide their addiction, over which they have no control whatsoever. Taking drugs may to them be more important than their loved ones.
If you want to help him, he needs to be treated, by first detoxification under the supervision of doctors. He then needs to be treated for the underlying biochemical disorder.
And have him referred to a Nutritional Doctor or a Clinical Nutritionist.
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Jurriaan Plesman
Editor of
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author of "Getting off the Hook"
Freely available at Google Book Search
Skype: jurplesman
