How Rehab Centers Actually Help People

Life can be tough, there is no doubt about it. How you handle your life is the question. 

Depending on how your life was when you were younger is a strong factor in how you handle your existence. In your single-digit years, your perceived worth is starting to be determined.  By yourself and how you handle the life events around you. These are also the years you generally learn of your great creator and the creator of all, our Lord. But if you didn’t learn of Him and His son Jesus Christ who gave all for you, you were unfairly cheated of His love. 

If you were not exposed to Him as a child, you grew up handicapped right from the start. And you might have turned to drugs and/or alcohol for solace. It happens every day.

Statistics

There are 2.1 million emergency room visits due to drug abuse, or approximately 5000 visits every day.  It is estimated that 23.5 million people have an illegal drug or alcohol abuse problem. That doesn’t even include prescription drugs. Only about 12% of those people get help, voluntarily or not.

Where?

Where do these people get help? From the good, kind people who work in rehab centers. These workers help you see your worth to Him while they help you through your ongoing trauma. Follow these steps to see a sample of the proven 12-step program they used to assist people. If it wasn’t for rehab centers and the compassionate people who run them, more people would be tragically lost every day.

How?

The first step is to get you out of the environment that got you into the situation you are facing.  You need to be in supportive, autonomous surroundings where you can face your demons without being sucked into them. Rehab centers and their ‘tough-love’ workers can keep you away from the abuse tool of your choice and help you with the detoxification of them.

Sometimes your dependency is so incorporated with your body that you may require a medical professional to succor you in your time of cessation, especially if your addiction was one of the opioids. Your body, if you were abusing yourself long enough, can grow dependent on any drug including alcohol. This is why a doctor may be necessary to relieve you of your pains while in recovery.

Safety

While you are staying at a rehabilitation center, you are not subjected to the usual stressors of daily life and therefore any possible triggers you once endured. You are also away from anyone who may be facilitating, purposely or not, or even instigating your troubled condition. This will discernibly assist you in your recovery.

Support From Peers

It has been proven that having support from one who also went through the same plight will be more beneficial than one with no history of addiction. In a rehabilitation center, you are surrounded by other people with drug or alcohol dependence, on different levels of recovery, who can relate with you and aid you in your arduous journey. 

Having a support group while you are in a rehab center and then once you leave to continue your sobriety from your past addiction will most likely be advantageous to your staying in abstinence of it. To be accountable to your group for your own well-being is a helpful way to keep ‘clean’ and to have someone to turn to if tempted or if you do relapse are a support group’s other meaningful purposes.

In many cases, leaving a rehab center does not necessarily mean you are ‘cured’, so a support group of peers is crucial. Since the person with the past dependence will most likely be going back to the same environment although altered, there may be a relapse. The triggers are not deleted.  You are looking at them differently, but not always successfully.

Causes

A rehab center gives you the opportunity, with your peers, to inspect your life’s experiences. Many times, addiction is incorporated with anxiety or depression. A rehab center can give you alternate avenues of dealing with these stressors as opposed to self-medicating. Giving you the exposure and reminder of your worth to God and your loved ones can be a beneficial tool to your recovery, as well.

If you are suffering in any way that involves some type of self-medication, know that there are people out there who can relate and/or help before the step of a rehabilitation center. You have to take the first step.