No. 292 Intervention

So, i'm watching this show about how they do interventions with people who have addictions of various kinds. I was drawn strangely to the show due to one gay mormon male who was molested and loves meth and group sex while another girl, so sweet and not fat, not toned, but like not fat is purging as they say...so both these people agree to be on teh show fine, then they do that whole intervention thing on them. Ok, the gay man, not really that interested and he'll probably won't be sober and later on tested hiv positive therefore making him probably even more "directionless" as well coupled with teh fact that his dad committed suicide when he was 2. Ok, but the girl, the girl is interesting. Loves to show the legs, but won't have sex because she thinks she fat. Eats a lot and does this whole like orchestrated keeps bags in her closet to vomit in, stores them behind a chest, then once a week throws up all out (14-21 bags-jesus christ right?) not in her own dumpster, but in an open on in like this box she has. Like, she puts the vomit bags in a big trash bag then in the box then puts it in the dumpster. Well orchestrated and she thought she was going to her grandmother's house (safe house right?) where intervention ensues where husband says he wants "normal life" and how "she can't have kids because he wouldn't trust her with them" but like in a nice way, the poor guy is probably like, "jesus i've never thought i'd have a girl who throwsup on a regular balance and just thought she liked to eat" type of guy who seemed all teddy bear ish, but god, so not the case, like he was a good guy, but in terms of if I was the wife i'd don't think i'd take it well not to mention that he says the sex life is non-existence and she says, "yea, cuz I think i'm fat..." Anyways, in the end, these two people who were intervened decide to get treatment then later on they say that they have been sober or didn't purge since like blah blah blah date or wahtever...my question is, yea right, not to be cynical but I find that or at least in many cases, "interventions don't work" you have to realize your own problems and sure, you can tell someone you haven't done it but I mean i'm sure you have, like at least once. I mean it's not foolproof and those people who say that they haven't had a drink in like 30 years or whatever, that is bull cuz i'm sure you would have had at least one setback, but anyways, that's not the point, but the fact is that girl like hid it so well that i'm sure she could do it again and I mean whose to say right? The poor husband is like, "I use to help her hide it" and stuff, I mean, what makes you think that she won't do it now and she won't do it later. She is like so indept at doing it where she says she won't do it in the toilet just in case one day it gets backed up. HELLO...I think purging, not eating, wahtever, smoking, addiction, it's like one of those things where you realize you have a problem and you change it, but lots of us don't have strong willpower and then it's all over, it's called "falling off the wagon" and I mean, it probably comes down to stigmas and cultural norms, like these people thought it was going to do meth cuz when the guy said, "if you haven't done meth, you haven't come out of the closet" or the girl, I mean, she's been purging a lot because I don't think she just did it when she got married, so I mean, it's been a long time and she even said she "felt like she was going to have a heart attack" -a sign of purging and it's badness, so i'm like, she done it a lot and thought it was ok or didn't care but needed to do it, what is going to stop her from doing it. It's like one of those ideals like racism doesn't occur, but we all know it does, "color blind racism" anyone? Seriously, it's like someone was telling me about how in us Americans are so racists and blah blah blah and we're so embarassing while someone was saying how UK people are equally as racist and all about the class system. Who is calling the kettle black now or whatever cliche (add here). It's like one of those things, you always blame someone else but whne it comes to change, you say sure why not, but you know it's not going to happen. Like the whole time she's at the intervention because she was going to her grandmother's for breakfast, she was probably thinking how long will it take for her to go home so she can throw it up and i'm sure they probably set her off on the plane with at least something to eat or what about on the plane-is there food, did she purge that up because probably she did? Just like the gay man and finally he said he would go and then went to pack his bags, do you think he packed his meth thing with him, probably not because they knew he would take it away, I mean, come on now right? Also, I hate watching these shows because I think there's a difference between reality tv and then reality tv that takes advantages of people even though they think they're trying to help, but some how I got suckered in, I think it was really about the mormon good son whose dad committed suicide when he was 2, molested by two babysitters, then realized he was gay sometime in college, went to CA, felt that he had his "people" and now become a homeless drug addict as mom lives with step dad in some adobe house in Arizona. You can't make up a story like that, seriously...