But it comes down to which came first the chicken or the egg.
And the success rate of recovery dropped dramatically, and continues to, with the whole dual diagnosis culture. Look up the data for yourself. It’s all about money, the more that’s wrong, the longer they can bill your insurance. Created so that “ problem addicts” can continue to qualify for 5 more useless trips to rehab. If the new thinking keeps you sick and profitable til they throw dirt on you, mission accomplished. Addiction treatment is a bigger business than cancer research, when my mother was dying from it at 59 yrs old, i was told by a specialist that 1. There probably is a cure long found and 2. That it will never be revealed as too many people would be out of work.
You’re a machinist. Use a lot of precision tools to do your job. When deciding which to purchase, do you go with proven brands ( starrett, Kennedy) or go with the latest, with no track record for durability or reliability?
Research what’s worked, usually it’s the least pleasant to do, the least flashy. The least complicated. The most hands on.
Clocks ticking cousin, and we all know that our dope makes it fly.
I appreciate the sentiment. You do clearly have my best interest in mind. That being said, although I have concurrent disorder I need to impress that I deal with mental health as a separate issue from the addictions. Or I don't excuse myself on addiction because If it anyway. It's one of my main drives to be able to deal with my head in part by eliminating the meth, one leads to the next.
Thank you though. Yes, I will go with what I know is researched and what I personally know has been effective for someone like me.
I've been sober before as long as 10 months and 6 a couple times as my bests. I know where I went wrong and where I was doing right and don't discount those periods as failures because I relapsed. I know what I live with and what I can't too.
You put way, way too much weight on my statements about having mental health issues and have presumptions about what I think as if I think I'm special or that I think it's all about psych and meds. I don't think that way. I also don't ignore substantial parts of my total issue with addiction AND mental health being 2 separate components, concurrently.
No it's not a scam to keep people in rehab, and even if it is I'm under no such illusion buying into some propaganda to get my business. What business?
I'm not headed to rehab. I am getting lots of outpatient support though. I'm in a peer support group with meetings, and now after months of persistence applying, a staff member of a forum with a harm reduction ethos which I truly believe in. I'm reducing the harm by quitting meth.
Although I've definitely put thought into going back to rehab, as it is now not a single agency is getting a dime from me or my time insofar as a rehab. What I am invested in is researched, and relevant to my personal situation and others like me. I know what to do, I just haven't done it fully or permanently yet.
I can't convince you mental health is real. I can tell you that by disregarding the entire field, and saying what you say about this money (that I'm not even spending)... you push conspiracy, ignore research, and you also weigh the mental health issue in my situation on trying to quit far heavier than I do though.
