Thursday, February 02, 2006
PERMAFRIED
PERMAFRIED
Author Withheld
Feb 2, 2006
This is an actual prayer request. It is not edited, only the
name is removed for privacy.
My prayer request is for my 15 year old son, ***********.
Approximately 4 months ago, he gave into peer pressure at school
and smoked weed with some friends. The experience was not a
good one for him. He didn't enjoy the high at all, and the come
down for him has been even worse.
The day he smoked it he said that he almost immediately became
paranoid about almost everything. I picked him up from school
and brought him home where he went to sleep. When he woke up he
complained that he was still high, that it hadn't gone away. He
had slept for several hours. The high was still with him the
next day...and for the next two weeks.
He began to believe that he had "permafried" his brain, giving
himself permanent brain damage somehow, and a fear of dying
seemed to set in him like an obsession.
Two weeks into this he said that he felt like he was "living in
a bubble, that everything felt like it was a dream and not
real." He felt like he may be the only real thing/person there
was and everything else was imagined in some way. This has gone
on for almost 4 months now.
I took him to a children's psychiatrist last week, thinking that
if I made the appointment that would be enough to snap him out
of whatever mental state he had put himself in. My son was the
happiest I had seen him recently when I told him where we were
going.
He spoke with the doctor for just over an hour, opening up to
him and telling him everything he has felt over the last 4
months. I don't think he held anything back. The doctor told
me at the end that this is real, what he is feeling, and it's
called "derealization." It's a fear that is so strong that you
disassociate yourself with your environment.
Essentially, you scare yourself out of living. He said that
sufferers usually feel like they are living behind a glass wall,
watching life from behind it (my son says he's in a bubble). I
have been to several web sights to look this up, and each site
scares me more than the last.
The doctor said that it is fixable, and I will take my son to
see him as much as it takes to fix this. If I could take it on
myself to deal with instead of his having to, I would. But I
can't. I have prayed myself to God that He bring my son back to
reality; that he be given the courage to come out from wherever
it is he has put himself, and to give him faith that all will be
alright.
Please help me to pray for my son. Please help me to ask God to
bring him back.
Thank you.
Name withheld by MountainWings for the sake of privacy.
PRAYER
"Lord Jesus, you are the fulfillment of all our hopes and desires.
Your Spirit brings us grace, truth, life, and freedom. Fill me with
the joy of the gospel and inflame my heart with love and zeal for
you and for your will".
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