August 18 2006
Pills that drive Thai women crazy

A heart attack at the age of 24 prompted a Thai ex-girlfriend to throw away her diet pills. She's lucky to be alive - but her story is by no means unusual. If she talks incessantly, loses her appetite and lurches wildly between euphoria and despair, your Thai girlfriend is probably taking them too.
All over Thailand, countless poorly regulated beauty clinics dish out amphetamine-like diet pills to any woman willing to pay for them. The, often unlabelled, drugs are dispensed in strengths described as ranging from one to ten but impatient Thai women hell-bent on losing weight with minimal effort often choose the strongest and most dangerous. Many also exceed the stated dose in the mistaken belief that if one pill is good, two pills are better.
Seeking a quick fix to the effects of a self-indulgent lifestyle, Thai girls with farang boyfriends are more likely than most to get hooked. Go-go dancers in particular tend to fill out pretty quickly when kindly patrons remove them from their natural chrome pole habitat and deposit them in front of the TV.
The risk of sudden death is well known to Thai women - and completely ignored - but the most insidious side-effect of the pills is the alarming personality change that's obvious to everyone except the sufferer. Serious bust-ups are almost inevitable when our pill-popping plumper starts to act like a meth-head.
A chum enjoys the services of the world's best maid but his diet-pill crazed Thai girlfriend fired her after finding a speck of dust under the sofa. Shortly afterwards, she accusing his driver of stealing and fired him too. Having dismissed the entire household, she then walked out herself the following day.
Of course, once the pills had worn off, she came crawling back (as they always do) and my friend was kind enough to forgive her. The maid was reemployed but, as it turns out, the driver really was a thief - which brings to mind the old adage that you're not paranoid if someone's out to get you.
At a recent dinner party, I ran into yet another respectable Thai woman who was on diet pills. She used to be a real class act but the drugs had made her brash and insensitive. Her stylish outfits had been replaced by bargirl gear and she proceeded to make a spectacle of herself by moving in on her best friend's partner.
Needless to say, she won't be receiving any more party invitations until she straightens herself out.
It was nice to see that she'd lost a few pounds, though.
[Posted to Relationships by David]
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