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The Eagle Has Landed -- In Rehab!
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<blockquote data-quote="Nomad" data-source="post: 635012" data-attributes="member: 4152"><p>What a great post! He got himself to rehab and that's great...a huge step!</p><p></p><p>Your post reminded me of something. I had a chance to work with youth court ordered into therapy for drug use. Many had very rough consequences of their drug choices.</p><p>BUT...if you had them list all the negative consequences like 1. Getting arrested 2. Getting kicked out of school 3. Getting into huge fights with parents and favorite uncle barely speaking to them 3. Losing girlfriend and other friends 4. Failing school and maybe not graduating 5. Health problems ....sickly 6. Having to go to therapy blah blah blah...</p><p>And they either could think of no positives or perhaps one on the "pro" list like having fun with friends...</p><p>They often still didn't see the point; still didn't see using drugs as having a negative or bad influence on their lives. It was amazing. Talk about denial!</p><p>Perhaps they couldn't verbalize it was helping them cope with pain.</p><p>However, on the positive side....at the end of therapy, sometimes they would come around and see that it wasn't worth the downside.</p><p>Still amazing!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nomad, post: 635012, member: 4152"] What a great post! He got himself to rehab and that's great...a huge step! Your post reminded me of something. I had a chance to work with youth court ordered into therapy for drug use. Many had very rough consequences of their drug choices. BUT...if you had them list all the negative consequences like 1. Getting arrested 2. Getting kicked out of school 3. Getting into huge fights with parents and favorite uncle barely speaking to them 3. Losing girlfriend and other friends 4. Failing school and maybe not graduating 5. Health problems ....sickly 6. Having to go to therapy blah blah blah... And they either could think of no positives or perhaps one on the "pro" list like having fun with friends... They often still didn't see the point; still didn't see using drugs as having a negative or bad influence on their lives. It was amazing. Talk about denial! Perhaps they couldn't verbalize it was helping them cope with pain. However, on the positive side....at the end of therapy, sometimes they would come around and see that it wasn't worth the downside. Still amazing! [/QUOTE]
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