Month: October 2012

When you decide to make the courageous decision to book into a drug rehab facility, you will begin to learn a lot about who you are. Or, rather, who you were while you were consuming drugs or alcohol. Choosing to get clean is a big decision to make, and it unleashes some harsh realities about who you hurt and how you hurt them. Below you can find out how your addiction is, or was, affecting your family.

Broken Relationships

As a drug addict, you can often say or do anything if it means the result is getting your next fix. Therefore, you may find a number of your relationships with friends, families, and partners, are impacted or broken beyond ever fixing due to your problem. What many people struggle with is not being able to find the real you inside the drug-addicted version. Therefore, many people in your life often do decide that breaking all ties is the only way they can make it through.

Isolation

When you enter drug rehab, you will find yourself going through a period of feeling isolated, but it’s nothing to what your family most likely suffered for many months. With a family member who’s a drug addict, many family members find themselves battling with whether they should let people know. Out of embarrassment, shame, or fear, they may decide the best way forward is to keep it bottled up.

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