http://www.drugrehabnet.com Drug Rehab Net Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:53:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.drugrehabnet.com/27/there-were-the-good-days-and-then-there-were-the-bad-days/ http://www.drugrehabnet.com/27/there-were-the-good-days-and-then-there-were-the-bad-days/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:09:53 +0000 Suki http://www.drugrehabnet.com/27/there-were-the-good-days-and-then-there-were-the-bad-days/ During my 90 days at alcohol rehab I experienced more ups and downs than I could ever hope to include in a short write-up. There were the good days and there were the bad, but in the end they all added up to precisely what I came for: alcohol rehabilitation. Alcoholism had left me in a shattered state, without the hope or energy one needs in order to make any kind of life recovery. Three months ago I found myself in a state of total stagnation and despair; my alcohol addiction had led me to a point of desperate immobility where nothing existed outside my alcohol abuse. I was truly at the brink of death with nothing to call my own but a broken soul. I had no future. When I finally reached a point where I was prepared to make a serious change in order to save my life, I was presented with an opportunity to go to rehab, a safe place, where I could learn some tools for sobriety as well as for living a healthy life. I gained so much more. I have never before in my life had an opportunity to take three months for myself; a time to peel back the layers and walls of my inner and outer personality and to explore the many corridors and shadows that have helped to create the person I was and the person I am today.

]]> http://www.drugrehabnet.com/27/there-were-the-good-days-and-then-there-were-the-bad-days/feed/ http://www.drugrehabnet.com/25/words-on-alcoholism/ http://www.drugrehabnet.com/25/words-on-alcoholism/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:43:13 +0000 Suki http://www.drugrehabnet.com/25/words-on-alcoholism/ It seems so tame, a glass of wine at dinner, a beer on a hot summer day. It’s part of our culture, right? For a lot of people, it is. For a lot of people, for the alcoholic, its not. People that suffer from alcoholism, or alcohol addiction, can’t just enjoy one glass with dinner, or have only one beer on that hot summer day. For the alcoholic, it’s not about enjoying the sip, or the refreshment. It’s about escaping what they perceive to be a miserable life and drowning what they think ails them with alcohol. As they say, one drink is too many and a hundred isn’t enough. There are many solutions to alcohol abuse. One is an alcohol rehabilitation center. Alcohol rehabs provide the alcoholic long-term solutions to live a happy life, without needing alcohol to have a good time. Some alcoholics recognize they have a problem and voluntarily enter an alcohol rehabilitation program. Others, who are so deep into their alcoholism and don’t recognize they need help, need an intervention to get there. Either way is okay, because the result is the same. The alcoholic gets the help they need to recover and start living their life.

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