[avoice]

Hi been to rehab for addiction twice at the treatment center in Florida.

[Willcat]

I've been through rehab once years ago. It was a much needed experience.

[madisgram]

I benefitted with the education provided to me about the disease of addiction. i followed up with a 12 step program of recovery. if you have been to rehab more than once what did you get out of your experience?

[beauflow]

no, I didn't go to rehab but some times I wonder if it would had helped in the long run with some things.

[splitimage]

I've been to rehab 4 times, once inpatient, and 3 times outpatient. The inpatient experience was a disaster, they were totally the wrong facility for me - weren't equipped to handle concurrent disorders.

I've been to the same outpatient rehab 3 times. I sincerely hope my last time was my last time. I've gotten more out of it, each time I've gone.

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[beeber_g]

I've been to out patient rehab a few years ago. I wasn't serious about it. Earlier this year I ended up hospitalized and rehab was recommended. I almost went to a month long in patient rehab, but opted out of it at the last moment. I think I'd be better off now if I would have stuck with the plan. I'm feeling the same I have been for years and struggling.

[avoice]

My experience never again addicts and rehab. Did meat amazing people all around the world. Got educated Florida the recovery State and replase State

[BeyondBlue]

Was in rehab when I was 19. Then outpatient substance abuse program at a mental health clinic last year. Been sober ever since.

[gma45]

Been to rehab twice! Once for depression the other for addiction both times it really helped for a while!

[missbelle]

Both my two youngest children have been to rehab. For my son it was a year program but then he relapsed. He is sober now but without a rehab and just with AA. My youngest daughter who is 30 went to a Christan program in Richmond Va. She loved it and found the God of her understanding through the program. She has been sober now for the longest she has ever been sober. She is out of rehab, working and has joined a church near her home in Virgina.One day at a time!!

[littlebitlost]

Currently in rehab.... for drugs.

[DePressMe]

Ive been to alcohol/drug rehab 4 times and on a psychward 3 times.

[Sanada]

never been to re-hab.

I have been addicted to L.S.D (about 2 yrs), cannabis (7yrs), E (for about 4 yrs), speed or amphetamine (about 2yrs).
I have never been in to coke or crack in a big way.
When I was in to the above drugs I was working as an actor and a few other jobs so I had to use moderation. So it kinda worked for me. It was not an addiction. I had to have big times of not taking drugs. And I was up on trapezze so it a double plus non non to be addicted. I would though in my time of be on those drugs.

Then came Heroin big time in 2001 (I was 31). That was the worst addiction ever in my life, it taught me a lot about just what it is to be addicted.
I never went to re-hab (it was offered), but I was in to getting through it myself and learning the lesson the hard way. I guess its why i'm clean now..

In all my 'so called' addictions though I would debate with my t that life itself is an addiction to me....E.G, I said that when I was 7 years old that music gave me a rush. I would run home from school just to hear music. Film was/is an addiction too and books.
I said to my t that when I wake in the morning my brain is telling me to make coffee and put on opera and have a cig, so I said just what is addiction.

Hence, I never need to go to re-hab.

Then came s/h in 2005 after an accident, but thats another story of addiction.

I went to an inpatient rehab about six years ago after being hospitalized for severe depression. As someone else mentioned, the experience was a disaster! It was a co-ed facility and the drama and hooking up shenanigans were overwhelming for me. I left a little over a week and a half into the experience. I returned home and entered an outpatient program and stuck with that to get sober. I entered AA and faithfully attended one to three meetings a day until I returned to work from a leave of absence (about four months). I loved AA, especially the woman's group . . . until someone in the group violated my confidentiality and the ramifications were pretty awful. I stay sober now by going to therapy individually. I do miss, however, the comradarie of the AA meetings.

[addipaddi]

I havnt, but went to my therapist today and she suggested i go. However, i feel i want to go but am absolutely terrified of going... i dont know anyone who has been to rehab and the only i have seen of rehab is in movies and it looks scary =/

[Willcat]

Originally Posted by addipaddi

I havnt, but went to my therapist today and she suggested i go. However, i feel i want to go but am absolutely terrified of going... i dont know anyone who has been to rehab and the only i have seen of rehab is in movies and it looks scary =/

My experience with rehab was a good one. I found the staff caring and helpful. I needed to get a start in recovery. I had been using alcohol/drugs for a long time, I also was trying to get clean on my own. Rehab gave the the opportunity to learn about recovery tools, how to use them and show me how to the use the tools for relapse prevention.

[splitimage]

rehab really helped me, especially this last time. I know I said I didn't have a great experience at my first rehab, but that was because it wasn't the right kind of rehab for me. They weren't set up to handle concurrent disorders. My last rehab - and I still go there 3 times a week for groups was really good - it was 5 days a week for 10 weeks. It had mandatory random blood and urine testing. It gave me a period of sober time to get started, and gave me some tools to help me better understand why I drank and what I needed to do to stay sober. Lots of focus too on relapse prevention. I like out patient rehab better than in patient because when you're inpatient, it's easy not to use - you just don't have access to it, but when you're outpatient you have to deal with cravings and temptations when you're not in program, but the program's there to help you learn the tools to deal with the cravings and temptations. So you get practice while you have support.

I go to lots of AA meetings too, and 1 women for sobriety meeting a week.

Rehab can be really helpful.

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