Comments on: The Creative Theory of Recovery from Addiction

By: pat

pat — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:54:04 +0000

Ihave struggled with this problem for many years now. My wonderful Godly husband has no idea I am addicted to pills. I am so tired of this life style but quiting is so hard. I was clean for 14 years then fell off the wagon as they say. I believe in prayer. I have lost so much becuase of this problem. Wonderful dream jobs I thought I would never had. I had it for 6 months got fired. Always thinking about how to get the next bottle of pills. I am so tired of this way of life I want to feel normal Pills seem to give me a good uplift happy feeling. Anyway it is a sad thing. I am caught in the middle of the trap. I want to fix the problem myself. I want to walk away and have enough of it. I do to want to loose anymore of my life. I have lost enough.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:11:35 +0000

Good point, Thomas. My response is right here.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:22:39 +0000

To my understanding and experience with treatment centers; “There is a 100% success rate in treatment centers!” True, the percentage of clients actually getting clean and staying clean are minimal, but this has nothing to do with their success rate. The centers offer a way out and it has been proven that anyone that stays in the recovery process and doesn’t pick up a drug will stay clean. They plant a seed and that is what their main goal is. Everyone that goes through a treatment center hears that they too can get clean and stay clean if they want to work at it. That is where you are taking away from the treatment centers as not working, but they are working because down the road after hitting that final bottom they will come back and try it again. The seed has been planted by the treatment facility and it will remain until they return to the program and death will remain in all of our futures. The choice is still in GOD’s hands how we will die.