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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 166426" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>What "Intervention" does NOT show you is the follow up of 1,3, 5 months down the road. It takes the average alcoholic or drug addict 8 or more times to try and fail before they get tired enough and disgusted enough with their life to want to make a change. But notice I said THEY try, THEY fail, THEY get disgusted, THEY want to make a change. </p><p> </p><p>I used to think that IF we took all the kids who had drug and alcohol problems, and found a deserted island for each of them to live on for say 10 years to get the drugs and the cravings completely out of their system and allow them to rehab and go through withdrawls by themselves - maybe that would work. And when I said this in an AA meeting - one of the alcoholics stood up and said - I would probably find a way to ferment coconuts to get alcohol or find out what leaf I could like to get high. </p><p> </p><p>So no matter what intervention WE push someone into - if there is a will for them to still get high or they haven't come to terms with being an alcoholic and MAKE THEMSELVES stop? There really is NOTHING we can do to help them. </p><p> </p><p>And sitting around wondering what you could have done will serve NO PURPOSE for you moving on. Yesterday is gone, Tomorrow isn't here yet so we deal with our Present - Our Gift of Today. </p><p> </p><p>Short of finding a time travel machine -you need to eliminate the word SHOULD have from your vocabulary. You did what you did when you did it because YOU THOUGHT it was THE BEST THING you COULD do for your child. </p><p> </p><p>You certainly did NOT sit around the house after you made a decision for your child and said - WE SHOULD do X because it's just plain wrong. Instead you said WE SHOULD DO X because it's the BEST decision. </p><p> </p><p>There are numerous drug and alcohol people who have kicked the habit and work hard every day for sobriety and to be clean. IF YOU INTERVIEWED 100 of them - 100 of them would tell you they kicked it ON THEIR OWN - not because their Mom made them go to rehab. </p><p> </p><p>Honest! </p><p> </p><p>Hugs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 166426, member: 4964"] What "Intervention" does NOT show you is the follow up of 1,3, 5 months down the road. It takes the average alcoholic or drug addict 8 or more times to try and fail before they get tired enough and disgusted enough with their life to want to make a change. But notice I said THEY try, THEY fail, THEY get disgusted, THEY want to make a change. I used to think that IF we took all the kids who had drug and alcohol problems, and found a deserted island for each of them to live on for say 10 years to get the drugs and the cravings completely out of their system and allow them to rehab and go through withdrawls by themselves - maybe that would work. And when I said this in an AA meeting - one of the alcoholics stood up and said - I would probably find a way to ferment coconuts to get alcohol or find out what leaf I could like to get high. So no matter what intervention WE push someone into - if there is a will for them to still get high or they haven't come to terms with being an alcoholic and MAKE THEMSELVES stop? There really is NOTHING we can do to help them. And sitting around wondering what you could have done will serve NO PURPOSE for you moving on. Yesterday is gone, Tomorrow isn't here yet so we deal with our Present - Our Gift of Today. Short of finding a time travel machine -you need to eliminate the word SHOULD have from your vocabulary. You did what you did when you did it because YOU THOUGHT it was THE BEST THING you COULD do for your child. You certainly did NOT sit around the house after you made a decision for your child and said - WE SHOULD do X because it's just plain wrong. Instead you said WE SHOULD DO X because it's the BEST decision. There are numerous drug and alcohol people who have kicked the habit and work hard every day for sobriety and to be clean. IF YOU INTERVIEWED 100 of them - 100 of them would tell you they kicked it ON THEIR OWN - not because their Mom made them go to rehab. Honest! Hugs [/QUOTE]
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