Addiction Rehabilitation: Becoming Aware of Choosing Emotional Help

Read the article here. Interesting. I don’t agree with everything, but I do agree with this part:

“The reality of any emotional/mental help is that the healer can’t help beyond his/her level of recovery.”

The article is about different models of addiction recovery. The disease model is most common. I’m not a physician, but the primary flaw in this model being that it focuses on symptoms not causes.

This article proposes a “self-discovery model of group healing” whereby a person primarily focuses on healthy relationships. As I see it, the primary flaw is what if the person really needs the medical care?

Organic Recovery

As time goes on, I’m adopting a much more holistic, organic approach. It isn’t about this method or those steps, it’s more of a combination of things. Just as an organic gardener has to balance organic fertilizer, compost, minerals, earthworms, and microbes and fungus to make a healthy soil (environment) for healthy plant growth and production, addiction recovery requires that same kind of balanced approach.

Some plants need more magnesium. Some need more sulfur. Some actually need certain microbes to protect from diseases. (Think on that one for a minute.)

Recovery is similar. Some need the medical treatments. Some need the group therapy. Some need both and more.

We all have limits, i.e., knowledge, experience or understanding in certain areas. If you only allow for one method or another, you’ll miss something vital. One thing is sure: we are all connected. We need each other to grow and learn and build healthy lives.

Read the article here.

Be well,
Damon