Going To Rehab And The Road To Recovery

Often times people with addictions have a hard time admitting they actually have a problem. They see the world as having the problem and not them. It can be challenging to convince a person with an addiction to seek help to better their lives and often times we have to show those addicted tough love. We have to remove ourselves from their lives until they’re ready to accept their condition and begin the road to recovery. Addiction comes in many forms from alcohol to drugs such as pain pills, heroin, cocaine, and meth.

Here you will learn more about what your loved one who suffers from an addiction may be going through and ways you can help.

1. The Substance

Once your loved one agrees to get help, the treatment for their condition will depend on the addiction they have. There is no simple fix and each individual will need their own treatment plan depending on how long they have been doing the drug of their choice, the side effects the drug has on them and the mental state of the individual when they finally come to terms with their addiction. Getting your loved one to accept they have a problem will be one of the biggest challenges, no one wants to admit they need help.

2. The Mental Issues

Having watched someone very close to me battle addiction, I have seen the process unfold. No one wakes up saying I think I’ll be an addict. There’s a lot more to it, an addict oftentimes feels as if their life is hopeless, they sink into a deep depression. They start drinking to drown their problems, turn to street drugs to find their happiness. Once the drug is no longer working or is hard to find, they’ll turn to something easier to get. Most times the easier to get drugs are the ones that will do more damage to an individual and in time lead to death.

Each drug whether prescribed or purchased from the street will effect each individual differently due to the chemistry in our bodies. When an individual uses street drugs, while they maybe finding their temporary happiness, this happiness comes at a price. The individual will start brewing up things in their mind that’s untrue. They’ll start to get paranoid, they’ll see everyone as out to get them. They’ll start to have delusions as if they’re in danger.

It’s very important that if you see a loved one maybe using to cope with life, you do everything you can to get them to accept they need help. If you don’t the results of their addiction can change them forever.

3. Group Healing

It’s important for an addict to have support not only from friends and family, but also from other addicts. This will help with the healing process, this will allow the individual to see they’re not alone and others suffer from addiction as well. Group healing is vital to the success of treatment. Having others they can relate to will make the recovery easier – including professional help. Look into out-of-state and in-state centers like Clearwater rehab center. The more help that is provided the better.

4. Family Help

Family help can be difficult, we don’t want to see our loved ones ruin their lives. However, as long as your loved one has accepted the fact they need help, it’s important we stand by them so they see we only want the best for them. DO NOT enable the individual, show sympathy to the condition, research the issues at hand and don’t take it personal when a loved one lashes out. Their minds are not there and to them you’re taking away their happiness.

5. You Feel Withdrawal

Every substance has a different withdrawal process and it is vital that the withdrawal process be done in a controlled environment with people that have experience with those suffering from addiction.

If you know someone who suffers from any kind of addiction even if it’s a gambling addiction, try to reach out to that person as soon as you can. The underlining treatment is critical for the individual with the addiction. Try not to be judgmental we all handle life differently and some people don’t know how to cope with stress and it turns them to a temporary happy. Be patient with the individual they didn’t wake up saying they wanted to be a junkie. I urge everyone who has a loved one with addiction to also seek help.

I have been at the end of an addicts backlash it’s not fun and extremely hard to deal with. So if you have someone close to you with an addiction please also seek help so you can better understand what your loved one is going through. Unfortunately for me I did have to walk away and I pray everyday, my loved one sees what he has lost and gets help before it’s too late.