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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 330393" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>I don't think that applies to everyone, Susie. I have a cousin who went thru a treatment program and started in AA about 25 years ago. He has been clean and sober all this time with the exception of one weekend binge about 18 years ago. He's not going to AA meetings all the time anymore but does not walk around craving alcohol all the time.</p><p></p><p>I had a drug habit, secondary to and resulting from the family issues. I do not have to go to NA meetings all the time to stay away from drugs at this point. It did take extensive treatment/therapy and working the steps and incorporating them into my life. It does take maintenance, but I don't crave drugs anymore and haven't for many years. There are things that will make a surge of desire go thru me, but I am able to let it roll off my back and keep going.</p><p></p><p>I don't want to argue or turn this thread into a controversial issue, but recovery programs are not full of people who are walking around miserable because they are spending every day of their lives not being able to move beyond a compulsion. That happens in the beginning and does last some period of time but if a succesful proggram is being worked, it can and does turn into maintaining the recovery.</p><p></p><p>I don't think this is the right forum to go any further about this but I would like to stress the point that people who have gone thru treatment programs and have worked 12 step programs can and do live normal healthy lives and move beyond the crisis mode and don't struggle with a compulsion every dayof their lives. There are things they have to do to maintain their own health and that differs depending on the type of compulsion, triggers, situation, personality, etc. This is what I'm calling "maintenance mode". For people who have had abuse in their childhood it might be a periodic thing, at least that is according to my old therapist and what has proven to be correct in my own life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 330393, member: 3699"] I don't think that applies to everyone, Susie. I have a cousin who went thru a treatment program and started in AA about 25 years ago. He has been clean and sober all this time with the exception of one weekend binge about 18 years ago. He's not going to AA meetings all the time anymore but does not walk around craving alcohol all the time. I had a drug habit, secondary to and resulting from the family issues. I do not have to go to NA meetings all the time to stay away from drugs at this point. It did take extensive treatment/therapy and working the steps and incorporating them into my life. It does take maintenance, but I don't crave drugs anymore and haven't for many years. There are things that will make a surge of desire go thru me, but I am able to let it roll off my back and keep going. I don't want to argue or turn this thread into a controversial issue, but recovery programs are not full of people who are walking around miserable because they are spending every day of their lives not being able to move beyond a compulsion. That happens in the beginning and does last some period of time but if a succesful proggram is being worked, it can and does turn into maintaining the recovery. I don't think this is the right forum to go any further about this but I would like to stress the point that people who have gone thru treatment programs and have worked 12 step programs can and do live normal healthy lives and move beyond the crisis mode and don't struggle with a compulsion every dayof their lives. There are things they have to do to maintain their own health and that differs depending on the type of compulsion, triggers, situation, personality, etc. This is what I'm calling "maintenance mode". For people who have had abuse in their childhood it might be a periodic thing, at least that is according to my old therapist and what has proven to be correct in my own life. [/QUOTE]
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