17 year old son and weed

Hiya fiona, I was really bad on weed from about 14 to 19. I’m 36 now and don’t touch the stuff. I literally had it every day for 5 years. I messed my gcses up, and didn’t go school for the last 6 month. I regret it a whole lot, even though I had the best teenage years. I regret having it.

I was a nightmare for my mum and dad. Punching holes in doors and walls at home. And having a bad temper I put it down to being a teenager which part of it is. The anxiety and that with your son is like me, but the weed makes it a load worse, you think it’s better with it – but it’s not.

It makes you really angry if you can’t have it. I could tell you some things I did.. but I’ll be here all day lol.

Mixing weed and being a hormonal kid isn’t a good combination at all.

Now.. this is how I stopped.. firstly I got to the point where I had enough of it. My life was boring, it was bad for my chest. I had a lot of regrets. I could only get a crap wage job. I’m in a great job now though.

Your son must want to stop it before anything. I started to do weights at home and that helped me a lot. Then i wanted to go in the army, and i needed 6 months to be clean. So this was my target, and it worked. But I never got in the army for health reasons. But i was clean from it and happy.

Sometimes we’re just stuck in the same shitty routine day in day out, and your brain gets use to it. So I took up weights and running and felt a lot better and refreshing. Just try and have a quiet talk with him and try and push him in the right direction. He can still turn his life around tell him, and he will regret it like I did.

Everything is hard the 1st time – like college and starting new things, people are afraid of change. But it will get better for him.

No of course not. I was going to say , share it with him. Because kids tend not listen to there parents. It stops you from doing so many things and socialising. And this will be a big part in his anxiety. Or could of even caused it. But I don’t know the times of when his anxiety started and his using.

But if I was his age again.id cut my friends off – the using friends, and I would go to college and learn a plumbing course or something. Or get my gcses then go from there. He still has the time to do all this and have a great future. Good luck.