Archive for the 'Counselor's Corner' Category

Addiction Crosses all Boundaries

As parents you do your best to raise bright, ethical and responsible children. You watch them grow from toddlers to teens and sure we all scratch our heads and say his "mother or father (which ever the case is) must have taught him that…" but over all they seem to be alright and well adjusted.
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Manipulation- How an addict gets what he wants.

As a recovered addict I can tell you my family called me the master manipulator for many years. I not only manipulated money from people but I also manipulated forgiveness and trust from people that never should have forgiven or trusted me.
Over the past five years as an Addiction-Treatments Counselor I have talked to countless families […]

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Fear of Soberiety

Close your eyes.  Now imagine you have had a really bad day.  Not just a bad day at work but I mean like you caught your spouse cheating on you, or a death of someone really close to you.  You need someone too talk to, someone that you have known for along time and you can […]

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

I went into long term, addiction treatment, six years ago for a cocaine problem. While in the program my wife delivered me divorce papers. Looking back, it was the best place I could have been to receive such horrible and lonely news. All these years later, the woman I was currently engaged to, and in […]

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Where’s the Bottom?

For years my family sat by waiting for me to hit bottom before they begain to seek the Addiction-Treatment they knew I needed.  It seemed everyone they talked to said the same thing “He has to hit bottom before he can get help”.  Well every time I would get into trouble or overdose they would think okay […]

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Long-Term Addiction Treatment

When I was 40 years old I was at the end of a long term addiction to alcohol and drugs. On December 2, 2003 my family brought me to a long-term in house rehabilitation center, said a prayer with me and left me there in a last attempt to save my life. They […]

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