Rehab Success Rate???

malamud69, BSN, RN · Feb 13, 2018

Hey guys
This is kind of related to the topic of success rates....sooo...
Just needed to vent for a minute to some people that understand. So I'm in my monitoring program since August 2016. The usual requirement here is to attend the nurse support group weekly for 1 year, and then get stepped down to every other week. So I was recently told that after speaking with my case manager, that my therapist cannot step me down to every other week, although my year of weekly is over. She says this is coming from my case manager, and all the case managers do it how ever they want. At this point in my recovery, I have a sponsor but I have been honest in group and have said that I only speak to her once a week at a meeting and I am not actively working the 12 steps. So I am told that this is the rationale behind not stepping me down to every other week group- because I don't speak to my sponsor often enough and I'm not working the steps. She said, well you know, all these people are dying out here, and we just don't want that to happen, and we want you to continue your recovery after monitoring is over, and we don't want to see you back here, blah blah blah. Basically saying the only way to not relapse was to have an active sponsor and work the steps.
So I was pretty jacked when she told me this. First of all, I pay $25 out of pocket every week for this group. So that's $50 extra that I was planning on saving a month, which maybe isn't a lot to some people, but where I am currently working (and signed a 2 year contract), I am being called off once a week, so I'm only working 24hrs a week on average. So that $50 would help. 2nd, it's pretty discouraging when I have done every single thing asked of me and required of me per this program. So for them to suddenly say, oh yeah you're doing okay, buttt sorry, not good enough...is kind of a kick in the junk. Like, you're telling me my recovery and progress aren't good enough for you? Screw you people, my life is better than it's ever been. And my life is already controlled in almost all aspects by your monitoring program, and now you want to "order" me to work the steps? Just kinda seems like bull crap to me at this point. So now I have to either get a new sponsor or talk more to my current one, and work on the 12 steps...or I'm stuck indefinitely attending my Nurses group every week.
Anyway, pretty trivial stuff, I know. Just had me feeling some kinda way and needed to put it out there.

Yes...like pavlovs dog they have been conditioned to believe by the 1 odd percent anecdotal "success" they somehow attribute to the musings of a delusional drunk with a w in his name some sort of superior "cure" exists...play the game to keep your career and then be shut of them...never forget: "That which can be proclaimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" My "internal" sanity will never be disrupted by the absolute abhorrent hypocrisy I must endure...endurance is key...spite fuels me and if you must "work the steps" remember its nothing more than an utterly ridiculous placebo for the massess...Personally I'd love to see the Dr. Seuss version...at least they would have merit beyond a cheap fairy tail biblical plagerism...onward!

SpankedInPittsburgh, DNP, RN · Feb 13, 2018

Yeah more hideous new attached to this farce. The idea of compulsory attendance in a group which is founded on voluntary adherence to a set of principals is simply asinine. To further compound this whole Alice in Wonderland effect is that the author was honest and simply stated the truth. He's not actively working the steps and isn't the standard holder of a cause he doesn't believe in which would account for 90% of the folks in those rooms which I've been stuck in.