I was once working with an addictions counselor and he put it very simply.
We all start out as cucumbers. But when one becomes addicted to alcohol or narcotic, we turn into a pickle.
As a pickle cannot turn back into a cucumber, we as recovering addicts, must admit to ourself we'll never be the same again. We're never "cured".
We've felt the physical effects of our drug of choice. We know how that feels. We have to run away when given the chance to get high/drink.
And as such, I will no longer feel how it is to be a cucumber. I know this, but I also will forever be looking over my shoulder.(10 years sober) I will always know I'm a pickle and have to actively stay sober and continue fighting off drugs and alcohol.
I knew a lady in rehab who had done Passages twice and she said it WAS like a vacation. Lots of one on one therapy (hours a day) and lots of couples/family therapy as well but in a gorgeous house with beach privileges and a pool/spa.
She said that the base program was something like 25k unless you were really rich. But stuff like therapy sessions and massages were billed separately so the sky was the limit there. She said her bill for 30 days was 45k, insurance covered part of it. That is about what my parents spent on residential for me when I was anorexic and a teenager.
It's so sad..... You have to be made of money to get better....... To get better you can't work...... Therefore have no money..... So you can't get "better"...... Cycle?
Several years ago, I went to an out patient treatment. I didn't have to pay anything, it was government funded, thank God for that. Then after I graduated that 6 week program I found a counselor that only charged $30 a visit. I guess I was lucky. There's no way an addict can afford places like passages, but I guess they do! And they're cured!
feb127
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Wow... And private pay 50g [emoji90] lol