Rehab makes you stupid.

[werdna]

I would like to throw my two cents in on this topic.

I had a bad addiction that I couldn't kick on my own. I went through a state funded rehab program. It wasn't one of those fancy facilities that celebrities go to. You had to eat what and when they said to eat. You showered when they told you to shower. You shit when they told you could shit. It was one step up from jail. Anyways, that place saved my life.

I went through the whole phase of being so happy to have my life back and told everyone about it. Prior to being clean, my addiction was my life. After rehab, being clean was my life. I went through that phase and have seen others go through it.

I will probably get flamed for this but I have read comments about people just having self control. Self control is one thing but addiction is a disease. I know I made some really dumb, bad life choices but when I wanted to stop I couldn't.

[n2tattoos.lol]

i agree that it's both a disease and a choice. you might have the addiction disease in you, but the choice to start is entirely yours. after that, for those that have the disease, it then becomes not a choice at all.

i also believe there are many people who don't have the disease. usually, it's those who find it hard to understand why we can't just quit on our own. we made the choice to start, we should make the choice to quit. i wish it were that simple.

but i understand the frustration for you lucky non-disease people. it just seems like another segment of society using up tax dollars and resources.

[Trips]

Meh I don't have a lot of empathy for users and born agains. The first amendment gives you the right to tell me how great it is, but being in my presence gives me the right to tell you to shut the fuck up. Its funny when their going over your addictions they don't teach you to stop judging and looking down on other people. One of the hardest things addiction wise that I've had to go through was quitting smoking after a 2 1/2 pack habit. When I quit smoking (cold turkey btw) I didn't turn around and started being a dick to my best friends that smoke.

If life teaches you one thing I think is to look after yourself first before opening your mouth to explain to everyone else how to exist.

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werd to ya mutha, yo. i feel ya, dawg.

[Candi Apples]

When most people attempt to get clean,one of their biggest mistakes is replacing one addiction for another.....

Whether it be religion,food,exercise,etc.......

These people have a hard time doing things in balance,instead they choose to do things in extremities.

While rehab is great for some people,it usually has a low success rate.

Only 1 out of 10 ppl will stay clean for more than a yr,and the rest relapse like the addicts they were born to be.

If I was ever going to get help with a substance abuse problem(providing I had a problem of course),then a rehab facility is the last place I would turn to.

Listening to all those stories would ultimately depress me,make me feel like the failure that I am,and make me want to use even more.

If someone has the willpower,then they can do anything.

Fuck rehab.

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Hi Candi. This is an ellipsis: ...

If only you used the space bar with the frequency you (mis)use period.

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Damn, I'm glad Midge doesn't read my posts. She'd break out that long pointer thing teachers use to have when there were chalk boards in the world. She'd have to punish me...

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Wishful thinking Scamp!! I just don't like Candi, is all

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she'd fucking rap your knuckles with a ruler.

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You're the voice of experience.