Rehabs versus Peer-Group Recovery

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Over the many years that I have been in alcohol recovery, I still remain grateful that alcohol rehabs were available when I first chose to stop drinking. During the first year of my sobriety, I continued to go to an out-patient counselor whose professional experience proved to be invaluable to me.

It was around the last month of my first year that my counselor and I began to sense a need for closure. He had seemed to run out of recovery-counseling material, and I had sensed that his usefulness was beginning to become more frayed. It wasn't that he had suddenly become an incompetent counselor; it was just that recovery issues for him were limited to the more immediate, day-to-day behaviors and relationships during that first year. He was not trained to deal with deeper, more chronic psychological/psychiatric issues.

Nor was he trained in any form of spiritual/personal-growth journey that could give solace, insight, and direction for the long-haul. He was merely following the model used in most rehabs and detox centers: treat the immediate medical and emotional neeRAB of the novice or returning addict.

When I first came into my recovery program of choice, Alcoholics Anonymous, I was first struck by the fact that it was a peer-group body: no one claimed to be
 
hi i am now 5 years in AA recovery , in the first 6or8 months i had 2 laadcs an a syc, it helped alot , an in time when i was able to start thinking for myself. i stayed with AA an my sponcer of 34 years they told me find a good oldtimer, i went threw the steps with him, an now i continue to maintain my sobriety, with a 12 an 12 every week an a big book meeting of which i am able to chair every week , an i belong to to a speaker meeting also , i do what is asked most of the time ,i was the coffey maker for this group ,an the bookie , an varyous other jobs , they said to me early on get a job ,stay in the middle of this recovrey thing, to give back what has been so freely given, i dont look past going back to coucleing, recovery is free, it can be our anger management our syc our drug coucler, they said stay in the middle of the pack if i sit on the outside i am more apt to get snached up by the lion,i was told to listen to all opions ,an to never be objected to other views,i have now built a program designed for daily life, i still go to 4 to7 meetings a week,early on i went to 1 or2 evary day for the first 3 years, they said just put half the effort into recovery that i did drinking, i know alot of folks that just are not able to see the whole picture, us alcoholics are self centered an forgetful, hang in there ,got more questions just ask, i guess to sum it up the corabo is great for us that want it , i do here some nightmares about treatment ,are some true , i am sure, but you know it all depenRAB on how hopeless we are . god bless scott:wave::)
 
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