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| Filed under: Dual Diagnosis — Suki @ 7:42 pm |
There’s a thing you learn, in addiction counseling. Actually, there are plenty of things you learn in addiction counseling…but there’s one that stands out from the rest, one that’s more important than all the others, really, insofar as it is ultimately the one upon which all the others are based:
It’s all up to you.
Not exactly earth-shattering, I guess…but there it is: It’s all up to you. Addiction counseling teaches you that addiction recovery is on your shoulders, that your success or failure in an addiction treatment program can only be a function of the effort you put it into it. If you want to get better, you will. If you don’t, you won’t. Nothing could ever be more simple than that.
Of course, it isn’t enough to just want; you’ve actually got to have the strength to turn that desire into action. And please, for you own sake: Find it. The strength. The courage. Find the resolve you need to make addiction treatment work, and to make addiction recovery real.
There’s no life quite so fulfilling as a sober life. You shouldn’t need addiction counseling to teach you that.
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