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@madison@nicecrew.digital remote
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Hi frens, I was wondering if anyone had experience with rehab and if you can share some insight on it. We have a family member who is a chronic, nasty alcoholic and everyone in his life just accepts it. Like "oh he's drunk he didn't mean it" or they just ignore him when he's like that. He is constantly getting himself into situations where he is on deaths door and he always pulls through somehow. Eventually, he won't make it. He's gone through phases of sobriety and has a distorted "Christianity" because AA requires you to ask a "higher power" to help in their 12 steps.

But rehab. Thoughts?
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Wignatia :cross_ortho_wooden2: :womenkitchen:

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@LawrenceGerald@poa.st remote
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@madison the rehab industry is an absolute grift. their business model depends on people NOT staying sober. for some, it does help to be separated from their daily life for a month while they adjust to life w/o drugs and alcohol but ONLY if they want to be sober and are ready to change some big things

the most important thing to know is that rehab absolutely cannot give someone the desire to stop drinking. the alcoholic has to desire that on his own. if he really does want to stop, deep down in his secret heart, then he doesn't need treatment but he will need AA. he might need a medically supervised detox, alcohol withdrawal can be dangerous. they don't teach you how to stay sober in treatment.

if he's been in and out of AA and has some distorted ideas about God and is using that as an excuse, he's not ready to quit. a lot of ppl are never ready to quit and they die with or of the disease. and it is definitely a disease of the soul.

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