Drugs V.S Pride....who will win, you will ultimately decide...
I have at least 5 years experience with interventions with individuals who consume alcohol, drugs, gamble...I have seen a lot of individuals suffer because they do not know how to ask for help!
What happens to those who cannot help themselves and have too much pride to let others assist them when they need a hand? People & drugs...the drugs become the people...they are no longer an individual...they are trapped within the vicious circle of consuming....a vicious circle that may only be stopped if the person decides for herself or himself that they are READY to take the next step...no one else can do a detox or a therapy no matter how much you love the person, or how much you see the person is suffering...drugs, alcohol, gambling have rendered our society a wasteland because we cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel...intervenantes like myself see people suffer everyday & are powerless, we can only guide people & or refer them to the resources that the require...so many great people in this world have lost everything & everyone they care about to a bottle, a syringe....for what...because they are suffering & just need to be loved...that is the reality that society neglects to share with the rest of the world...that is the SAD but very true reality of those who suffer from addiction...
When will people realize that no one else can make choices for you, step up to the plate, if you want your life to change to not expect things on a silver platter, it will not work, you are lying to yourself...you will live alone and die alone if you cannot see beyond your pride...let it go...it is a matter of life or death!
Make the RIGHT choice for yourself...may your life be as fruitful as your heart desires & may the suffering from all substance abuse cease to exist!
Sincerely,
Tiara
My history is of discovering my feelings. My feelings are okay. I need to express my feelings fully. I learned how to breathe again. I learned to watch my body.
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After a few years of this practice, learning and discovery, I stopped drinking. I stopped drinking because I liked feeling grounded. After learning how to watch my feelings in my body, I didn't like the effect of alcohol. Stopping drinking also had an effect on my relationships with my old drinking buddies. I don't listen to people who are drinking.
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Many years later, I started living in my truck, and after my truck stopped running, I simply lived outdoors. Living outdoors is difficult, but what makes it better is living outdoors in community with other like minded individuals.
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I am not surprised that you offer your addiction intervention on a homelessness site. I often see this assumption in the news media and in people's attitudes of lumping homelessness and addiction together. I would say addiction affects many people, not just people without housing, and perhaps more so the housed who have the means to pay to continue feeding an addiction.
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Perhaps, this is my excessive pride in stopping drinking. In the beginning, I did ask for help, but I had no idea what I was asking for, or getting myself into.
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How do we ask for help? How do we step up to the plate? Or, do we actually need to step down? What does this look like to you?
Sometimes you need to hit rock bottom before you realize that you have no control over yourself and your life anymore.
After many years of consuming one cannot stop without having some type of "epiphany"...and even then it is important to realize that during the process of "stopping" consuming everyone has a period whereby they fall back into old patterns, with old friends because for SO long that is all the person has ever known.
We cannot ask someone to change without going through a transitional phase of trial and error to find out what works for or what does not work.
At the first of every month (like today the first of August so many people who have stopped consuming will fall of the wagon because the temptation is far to great, after the money is gone, the high is gone)
Afterwards it is living with the regret that burdens so many addicts, the questions like, "What the hell was I thinking, I was clean for X amount of time & now I need to start all over again!"
The truth & the fact of the matter is that this is the most important part of the healing process to stop your addiction. It is a very trying period for any addict & it is a pahse where you are the most vulnerable. The chances of suicide increase because you feel that you cannot reach yor goals, it seems unattainable...it is important to rememebr that we are all just human and NEED to make mistakes to learn and to grow...some mistakes unfortunately can cost us our lives.