Tidligere misbruger Jonas: Det var ved at koste både mig og min mor livet
October 17, 2025
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5 min read"I tried to hang myself in a goal. And it snapped."
Jonas was 22 years old when he walked to a football field near his home with a small rope. He had been in a heavy drug addiction for years, and a painful breakup had pushed him past the point of hope. The rope broke. He woke up on the ground with marks on his throat, and his first thought was not relief—it was shame. "I can't even get that right," he remembers thinking. He went home and hid the marks. No one knew.
The conversation that follows is not a redemption arc told in hindsight. It is a raw account of how addiction warps perception, destroys relationships, and survives multiple attempts at treatment. Jonas describes the mechanism clearly: his addiction had its own intelligence, and it would not let him be helped until he was ready to let it.
The addiction's logic
Jonas explains that his addiction operated through a kind of pre-emptive defense. Whenever his family confronted him—when his mother begged him on her knees to stop—he would smile and say, "What the fuck are you talking about? There's nothing wrong with you." He calls this "independence mode." The addiction would not allow anyone to know he was struggling, because if he started taking responsibility for his problems, he could no longer continue to use.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:02) **Suicide Attempt and the Breaking Point** - Jonas describes the night he tried to hang himself at a football field, using a rope that snapped, and the immediate aftermath of hiding the marks from his family.
- 2 (05:57) **Manipulating His Father and the Family Intervention** - Jonas recounts threatening his father to drive him to get drugs, which led to his family staging an intervention.
- 3 (07:37) **The Lies and Destruction of Relationships** - Jonas explains how addiction turned him into a manipulative liar, destroying his closest bonds, especially with his mother.
- 4 (09:44) **Finding His Mother After Her Suicide Attempt** - In the most intense section, Jonas details the day he found his mother unconscious in the locked bathroom after her own suicide attempt.
- 5 (15:31) **The Failed Wake-Up Call** - Surprisingly, Jonas reveals that saving his mother was not his wake-up call; instead, he used the trauma as an excuse to abuse more.
- 6 (16:28) **Three Failed Treatments and Relapse** - Jonas describes entering day treatment three times, each time relapsing within two days of returning home.
- 7 (20:58) **The Real Turning Point** - Jonas identifies the moment he woke up after his last relapse as the true turning point, leading to a new approach to recovery.
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Show Notes
Kun et bristet net reddede ham fra at tage sit eget liv. Senere stod han i en anden kamp for livet, denne gang for at redde sin mor, der forsøgte selvmord, mens han selv stadig var fanget i misbruget.
“Mit misbrug var ved at koste både mig og min mor livet,” fortæller Jonas. I dag har han lagt flasken og stofferne bag sig og hjælper nu andre.
Lyt med, når Jonas åbner op om den kamp, der næsten kostede ham livet – og den styrke, der i dag holder ham i live.
Episoden indeholder personlige fortællinger om selvmord og misbrug, som kan virke voldsomme.
Hvis du selv har selvmordstanker, kan du kontakte Livslinjen på 70 201 201 eller på livslinjen.dk.
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