Calling what you want, that is, calling for a condition, illness or disability. I have no problem with those labels. Tom, Dick and Harry in the addiction treatment industry all claim poisoning as "incurable disease". Terminal cancer is an incurable disease. Addiction is absolutely treatable. I know that this is true. Because I am a healing alcohol addiction, because there are millions of people like me.
So why is poisoning treatment calling poisoning an intractable disease? Well, one is good for business. Addiction treatment is an industry of billions of dollars. Like millions of dollar enterprise entities, it is beneficial for many treatment centers to guarantee people's return. While I was spending my time in rehab, I was shocked to learn that many of my colleagues were hospitalized in rehabilitation hospital more than three times.
Classifying toxic diseases as refractory diseases also enables one size approach to treatment. Everyone can agree that only lifetime abstinence is the only solution if you believe that all patients suffer from the same incurable illness. The truth is that people are different. There is no doubt that alcohol dependence will become uncontrollable by one drink, but others can learn how to control drinking. It is because addiction is an illness of choice. I do not mean to insist that all addicts choose to be one. In fact, almost all addiction is caused by other forces, such as infantile trauma and other forms of abuse that an addict suffered in the past. Because sneezing is a cold virus, relying on alcohol and drugs is often a more serious problem symptom. Referring to the selection of additional diseases, it means that each of us has the power to learn how to control poisoning. Unlike terminal cancer, we can choose our destiny. We can choose whether we will be better or not.
Although I participated in rehabilitation was voluntary, I did not enjoy it, but I did not plan to repeat my experience. I will learn how to overcome poisoning and try. In any case, rehabilitation has decided to pay close attention to every aspect of treatment, not a rotating door for me. My fellow addicts and I learned a lot in thirty days. We participated in daily group therapy sessions to learn problems causing poisoning. We taught the importance of entrusting our will to our higher power will. We have learned the terms negation, alcoholism, emotional maturation. The counselor repeatedly remembered that people, places or circumstances that might affect our drinking should be avoided at all costs, at an early stage of recovery, or as a result of relapse It was.
So far, I thought it was very good. These concepts made sense and were useful tools for learning to overcome poisoning. It was not until then that the counselor began to question the program since I notified that all addicts suffered from intractable diseases. He assured us that addicts could never cure and that our only hope was learning to manage our illness. According to a counselor, this answer included a lifelong twelve-step meeting, which included finding a sponsor to monitor us. We also need to remove old drunk friends and never attend social meetings where alcohol was consumed. We were once addicted and said to be always addicts. We were very simple and weak and vulnerable to escape for ourselves.
I entered the rehabilitation with the idea that it was there to learn how to overcome poisoning within 30 days. Why is there a 30-day hospitalization program designed to teach addicts how to overcome poisoning? There was no notification to me that poisoning was intractable. Even if it was there, I never spent a month on the treatment program, but I was told that my illness can not be cured. I disagreed with my opinion. Our counselor replied that the alternative is a recurrence and an early grave. He added that the choices were mine and neither of them was careful. A few days later, during group therapy, he announced that my attitude is useless for other addicts. I ordered myself to pack my suitcase out.
I was doing the rehabilitation the same way as I arrived - it is still decided and still addictive, but there is one difference. Rehabilitation brought me the basic knowledge necessary to overcome addiction without attending a 12th meeting or buying the belief that poisoning is a curable disease. A few weeks later, I discovered a way to hit addiction using three simple steps that anyone can learn. Today, I have almost always chosen the latter, but I do not need to avoid social meetings where alcohol is served, I can drink alcohol or leave it. I am a recovering alcohol, not a former alcoholic.
Dan Farish is Addiction Recovery Coach,
3 steps for recovery - 1 victory for alcohol and drug - a simple approach anyone can use to overcome poisoning
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