True Addiction Recovery
When looking at how many treatment programs, out patient programs, or meetings are available to the general public its astonishing to see how many people are still suffering on a daily basis from their addictions.
One would think with so many different options available to a person that anyone who wished to become better would find the help and freedom to move on to a healthy and happy life. However, many addiction recovery programs focus more on coping with the addiction as opposed to overcoming the underlying causes.
Both the mind and body wish to be well and feel well. At some point during a person’s life they experience some sort of pain, discomfort, or situation that causes them to lose this state of well being. As the mind and body wish to escape from discomfort, it looks for solutions to the problem. Thanks to television and a medical industry more focused on treating issues as opposed to curing them as its better for their pockets to treat than cure most are left in a cycle of “legal addiction” as a form of escape from what they wish to forget.
Many treatment programs set a finite amount of time for the individual to recover. If you’re not better in x amount of days, oh well, they send you on your merry way back into the world. Granted your body may no longer be craving that which you went in for, your mind has still not recovered. Living day to day, hour by hour believing that there is no solution for your salvation will drive a person to madness, which is why the relapse rate is so high amongst those in 12 step recovery.
However, treatment programs that focus on addressing the underlying mental issues associated with why the person turned to either legal or illegal substances in the first place is the key to recovery. Until the mind has been put to ease on the situation(s) it is running from, a person can never fully recover. By becoming empowered over the situation the need for substances is removed. By learning about alternatives to medications such as fitness, diet, or mental exercises a person can participate in they can lesson the chances of new events triggering similar responses. By overcoming the previous issues in their lives a person is no longer left dwelling partially in the past, giving them a bright future to look towards.
True addiction recovery lies in healing a person on the inside as well as the outside. Cessation programs focus solely on the outside. 12 step programs keep a person trapped in the past, without relief. The only motivation to move forward is the hope of a better day. When the issues of the past have been resolved fully, a person can live a happy and successful life.
Both the mind and body wish to be well and feel well. At some point during a person’s life they experience some sort of pain, discomfort, or situation that causes them to lose this state of well being. As the mind and body wish to escape from discomfort, it looks for solutions to the problem. Thanks to television and a medical industry more focused on treating issues as opposed to curing them as its better for their pockets to treat than cure most are left in a cycle of “legal addiction” as a form of escape from what they wish to forget.
Many treatment programs set a finite amount of time for the individual to recover. If you’re not better in x amount of days, oh well, they send you on your merry way back into the world. Granted your body may no longer be craving that which you went in for, your mind has still not recovered. Living day to day, hour by hour believing that there is no solution for your salvation will drive a person to madness, which is why the relapse rate is so high amongst those in 12 step recovery.
However, treatment programs that focus on addressing the underlying mental issues associated with why the person turned to either legal or illegal substances in the first place is the key to recovery. Until the mind has been put to ease on the situation(s) it is running from, a person can never fully recover. By becoming empowered over the situation the need for substances is removed. By learning about alternatives to medications such as fitness, diet, or mental exercises a person can participate in they can lesson the chances of new events triggering similar responses. By overcoming the previous issues in their lives a person is no longer left dwelling partially in the past, giving them a bright future to look towards.
True addiction recovery lies in healing a person on the inside as well as the outside. Cessation programs focus solely on the outside. 12 step programs keep a person trapped in the past, without relief. The only motivation to move forward is the hope of a better day. When the issues of the past have been resolved fully, a person can live a happy and successful life.
