Substance Treatment: Graduation Day!
Substance Treatment: Graduation Day!
Substance Treatment: Graduation Day!
The first things many men and women do not consider when they enter a treatment facility is the first moments after they graduate from their safety of being separated from their real lives. The stress of our daily lives has been replaced by the routine of adapting to the treatment facility way of life. Being sequestered away in a rehabilitation facility feels almost as if you are in a recovery cocoon or recovery bubble.
While it may appear like putting the cart before the horse, we need to introduce you to a tool called the Recovery Stress list, as part of your initial treatment plan early on. A good treatment plan must actually be a plan. That may sound silly, but how often are the men and women actually prepared for what lays before them, which remains to be seen.
This is not the time to delve into a scare tactic or fear monger story. It is the time to address real life issues rather than ghoulish failure rates. Your treatment plan must be something that helps you access the most obvious problems and then allows you to plan for them before they happen. Common sense recovery would tell us, if we can circumvent problems or at least be prepared for them, we stand a better chance of surviving them. A treatment plan must supply more than telling you "just go to meetings." Self-help group meetings are not bad things, they are what they are, some good, some bad, some informative, some serve great coffee, some have great cakes. Some have or offer paid memberships "clubs" where you watch television and play cards. Use common sense, since not everyone in attendance in these "self-help groups" are there for the same reasons.
But we are not here to discuss "meetings" we are here to discuss a specific tool, the Recovery Stress List.
The Sound of Panic:
The sound of a door closing behind you could send you into a panic if you are not prepared. While statistics are hard to find on this, most treatment facilities and all recovery systems rarely report "lapse and relapse" statistics. Casual observations and daily interviews of men and women leaving treatment for the past twenty years does supply a common denominator, many return to substance use, and it happens in the first twenty four hours of leaving treatment, or first days of attempting quitting, each day is like a ticking time bomb or can feel like it. Within one day, to a week and many have lapsed, and all of the pain returns, "What happened, when it all looked so easy, secure and confident, from behind the safe walls of a treatment facility? Some call that "powerlessness", which is not the case, more often than not; it is simply not being prepared to return to your old lives. Nothing has changed there. The bills did not go away, the responsibilities did not go away, and life went on while you have been gone. The magical thinking of everything is going to be okay, simply does not materialize for many. To quote Martin Luther King: "Life is as hard as steal."
The point is clear, if you entered a treatment facility for two weeks, four weeks, or longer, the day must come when you leave treatment, and on that day the real question will be: "Are you prepared? While most studies conclude, the longer the treatment stays, the better your chances of a sustained recovery. They all, even prison, have one thing in common, everyone must leave eventually.
Does Price matter in your Treatment?
Choosing a treatment facility can be based on price, or length of stay, and the price ranges from one thousand dollars to tens of thousands of dollars. Some treatment facilities have all the amenities of a five star resort hotel with gourmet chiefs and private medical staffs, with optional drug therapies to assist in the withdrawals of certain chemical dependencies. Treatment centers can provide, private rooms with personal medical staffs, nutritionists and personal fitness directors, including dedicated psychiatrists and fully staffed medically trained professionals. While others may offer only the basics of needs but supply a safe environment to remain substance free. No matter the facility or the price paid, or the duration of the stay, the day will come when you leave and return home. In that moment, does it matter if you spent one thousand or fifty thousand, the pressure is the same.
One of the most common occurrences in a treatment facility is the false sense of security it is designed to offer. If for example you flew to a city to receive treatment, and stayed for four months. While you may have arrived kicking and screaming, a therapeutic alliance or friendship is often developed at least with one of the staff, a doctor, psychiatrist, therapist, or one of any of the staff on the campus.
Were you prepared to leave, when the treatment was over?
One of the many obstacles or difficulties all substance problems supply is stress, the stress of returning to work, or home, or families and friends, creditors and the "old life" they just left.
The right question to consider is "who is in your life?" and follow that with "2-Day?" As in right now, when the door closes behind you as you exit a treatment facility, or rehabilitation.
To find out how to use the Recovery Stress List, register here on the site and simply follow the directions. This simple tool will be used, to discover where potential stressors will come from. That will allow you while you in the safety of a treatment facility to prepare for the Graduation Day.
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