I'm with sans. I love it when I can hear a speaker and say well if they made it, I can make it too.

Definitely keep the focus on hope, that it's hard work, but recovery is possible. I'd like to hear how giving up substances affected your mental illness subsequent to getting clean, and how dips in you MI affect cravings, if they do, and how you cope with that.

You might want to mention that while rarer than AA there are meetings for people with concurrent disorders, like Double Recovery, and Dual Diagnosis Annonymous.

Don't know if the rehab you're speaking in is 12 step or not, but you might want to mention the benefit of having an IRL support group after treatment and that there are alternatives to AA. SMART recovery, Secular Organization for Sobriety, and Women for Sobriety are all good programs, that are sometimes more accepting of people with MI and the needs for meds.

Good luck with it.

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