It felt like nirvana to me. “Oh my god, this is amazing,” I exclaimed. Work would go so much more quickly, I realized. Since I wouldn’t have to sleep, I could study at night before heading to work.
“I wanted to be able to have fun and do my exams and not feel like I was running out of time and that I was tired,” Mandi stated.
“Being awake, conscious, and aware of what was happening made me feel fantastic. Therefore, I saw nothing wrong with the drugs.
Mandi acknowledges that during the height of her drug use, she was snorting up to four times a day and continuously spending her weekly salary of $600 (£450) on her habit.
She kept taking the pills, though, because they were giving her so much energy that she was able to keep everything in her life going, until she became pregnant at the age of 21.
Being a mom was the wake-up call Mandi needed to get back “on the right track,” she said, adding that “I was at my worst probably right before I got pregnant.”
“I would stop doing the drugs and I would take care of my kid,” she replied. “I was aware that I would have an incentive to maintain my sobriety if I became pregnant. I just needed someone to keep tidy for.
