clean42day
11-08-2009, 10:34 PM
Sounds like the same model of the first treatment program I went to called "cottonwood" in Albequerque. Same kind of set up - but mine was 30 days and 18 grand.
I had to carry a monkey around my neck that represented my guilt and shame and boy was it a relief to get rid of that thing at the "screaming well".
It is sad that more treatment places aren't more comprehensive like the ones we have experienced.
I remember my last treatment center was a county facility and I was mandated to it for a solid year. When my counselor asked me what I wanted to work on - I rattled off a whole slew of things I knew to be my "issues" and he said he didn't have the resources to address those things. I said then you are wasting your time and so am I. Cause I knew enough and had learned enough about myself in previous recoveries if I did not begin to heal some of those issues and learn new coping skills.....I would revert to self medicating them away again.
I was the first client they allowed to attend outside meetings for coda, sexual abuse survivors groups and they brought in a therapist to help me with inner child work.
Now that particular treatment center has a much more well rounded cirriculum for it's clients.
I had to carry a monkey around my neck that represented my guilt and shame and boy was it a relief to get rid of that thing at the "screaming well".
It is sad that more treatment places aren't more comprehensive like the ones we have experienced.
I remember my last treatment center was a county facility and I was mandated to it for a solid year. When my counselor asked me what I wanted to work on - I rattled off a whole slew of things I knew to be my "issues" and he said he didn't have the resources to address those things. I said then you are wasting your time and so am I. Cause I knew enough and had learned enough about myself in previous recoveries if I did not begin to heal some of those issues and learn new coping skills.....I would revert to self medicating them away again.
I was the first client they allowed to attend outside meetings for coda, sexual abuse survivors groups and they brought in a therapist to help me with inner child work.
Now that particular treatment center has a much more well rounded cirriculum for it's clients.