So it’s been 3 months 22 days since my arrest and sober ever since. I am curious about treatment since the consulor said I need it? I found a center that does Zoom meeting sessions but wonder if they will make me go round 2 just to take money. I’ve heard stories about it curious what everyone thinks or experiences? Either way I was going to sign up for it because I need something to show I am responsible and handling the issues. Thanks!
Have you considered an intensive outpatient program? I attended IOP for 14 weeks after a DUI accident and found it to be a great foundation for my recovery. I started out going 4 days a week for 3 hour sessions. After 4 weeks, it went down to 3 days a week but still 3 hour sessions. Before leaving IOP, they transitioned me to AA to avoid any gaps in my recovery journey. I’m coming up on 3 years sober which was only made possible by all the time and hard work I put in.
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Do you think you need it?
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I don’t feel like I need it. Just with my job it’s best to get it done and move on. I just feel like some centers just take your money and some people really need honest care.
I had several IOP’s, one expensive one twice which worked very short term. They really focused on the improved during their seven week in-house treatment. After that they just let me go. Had one really bad IOP, only the latest was with no bullshit therapists that cut through my bullshit.
Of course I cannot see in your head and don’t know your history with your DOC, but as long as your honest to yourself and don’t fool yourself I can understand that you do a program with the motivation you mentioned.
Yeah I do agree, I never thought I needed treatment either. But I knew what I was doing wasn’t working. I made it 15 months without treatment, I did outpatient treatment but for the most part I just abstained and was miserable the whole time. I can’t lie I didn’t want to go and do inpatient but I needed something different I needed to try. I didn’t really have any expectations when I went it, I just knew I wanted to get better. Rehab was definitely something I needed it helped me so much and helped me love myself and find myself, I did all the work the councilor recommended and went through family sessions. Did it feel like boot camp, yes a little bit but it was the boot in the ass I needed man, I know it’s scary leaving a job to go and get help but I would absolutely listen to your heart and councilor. Your mind tells you that you don’t need the treatment but that’s your mind not your heart. Then my counciler recommended a half way house, I was so scared and my mind said no, but my heart said yes. So I went for it and did it, I left everything behind my family and two beautiful girls. But in reality im not leaving them behind, I’m doing the opposite and getting better so I no longer never have to leave them behind for real. I still have days where I say why am I here, but I know it’s going to give me my best life, I feel the best I have in idk how long, I feel I’m actually working my recovery, I hit meetings every day, I have group everyday and most importantly I fucking love myself. I definitely would absolutely recommend treatment. My counciler taught me alot about myself and gave me tools I never had
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I also got a DUI, 2017
I had to undergo a Substance Abuse Assessment, and DUI classes.
I lied my way through them, cause I said oh I’m not an addict I just had a one time mistake and sold it just like that. So In the end they treated it as such.
Yeah I didn’t drink for a little while after my DUI, but once I got an understanding of what was happening I went right back to it, hell I grabbed booze after my last visit. On my way home
It was another 3 years until I sought real treatment, and I went inpatient rehab, which cost 64k, my insurance paid most of it minus a few hundred bucks. If I would have done it sooner, I would have been a lot better,
I believed it was a money racket as well, cause let’s be honest DUIs are an easy conviction a lot of fines and fees, and a lot of extras.
In the end, I wish I was honest sought treatment earlier and got help sooner, did I eventually turn out ok, yes of course I did. But I’d rather be sober at 30 than pushing 40
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