Addiction – the Harmful Myth of Rock Bottom
Nothing frustrates addictions professionals more than the lingering and harmful social myth of addicts and alcoholics needing to hit rock bottom before they can get better.
It may be the case that many people who do lose everything do come to realize a need for help, but that doesn’t mean that you have to watch in silence until that tragic day; and if you do, you actually lower the chances of long term success. Earlier is always better. You can influence change, and the sooner you do it the easier it is. The longer abuse continues the more entrenched addiction becomes, the more challenging the ultimate treatment, and the lower the prognosis for success.
Addicts and alcoholics are notoriously bad at self diagnosing the extent of the problem, and very rarely initiate treatment on their own accord. Thankfully, when family can convince of a need for treatment, and when family can insist on a full participation in needed treatment, the recovery rates are just as good as for those few addicts who decide to get help on their own.
Addiction is Rarely Intuitive
Addiction is tricky, and even after decades of intensive research, professionals don’t yet have all the answers. What they do know is that what makes sense isn’t always what works. Addiction is rarely what it seems. It makes sense that people who decide on their own to enter into treatment would do better…but they don’t.
While actively using, moments of clarity and rational self exploration are few and far between, and for a lot of addicts, the first few days of rehab are the first real days of clear and focused thought it in years. A lot of addicts only come to realize the extent of the problem, the possibility of and the desire for change after a few days of sobriety, a few weeks of therapy and a month or more of rediscovering how good life can be without the pains of abuse.
Get Them Help
So whenever you can possibly convince of treatment for a loved one that desperately requires help, they should go. It doesn’t matter at all whether they don’t think they need it, they’ll very likely change their tune with ever increasing clarity and therapy.
Don’t wait for the worst, things can get better before that terrible day ever comes. Never wait for rock bottom!
You can make a difference, run an intervention, do what you need to do to get someone suffering through addiction into treatment and on the road to recovery. They’ll thank you for it!
Learn your treatment options. Learn what works:
http://www.choosehelp.com/addiction-treatment/drug-treatment-centers-info-sheet
Red the daily addiction and recovery blog:
http://www.troubleblog.com/recovery-from-addicition/2007140/
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