View Single Post
Old 12-30-2006, 09:26 AM   #4 (permalink)
Kellye C
Member
 
Kellye C's Avatar
 

Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Highlands, TX
Posts: 1,165
Blog Entries: 1
Earlybird is right on. I detoxed at home because I had no insurance and didn't feel like detox or rehab was an option and I had to keep working. I didn't know at that time how dangerous it could be but I had someone with me all the time who knew what I was doing. I also went to AA the whole time and started working on the inner stuff. The detox alone wasn't enough because it did nothing to address WHY I drank. I had to work on the whole picture which is what rehab does. I did it through nightly AA meetings, work with a sponsor and lots of phone calls to AA people. Had I just detoxed once I started feeling better I would have picked it back up because my addiction would just be sitting there working at me without any type of a defense.

Oh yeah, once I started admitting what was going on to people around me there were some that were surprised but many more that were not surprised. We think we do such a good job of covering it up but people are not stupid. They knew there was a problem and were just glad that I was getting help.

Hugs,
Kellye
__________________
Kellye C.
Sobriety Date 8/8/04 - By God's Grace and A.A.

Last edited by Kellye C; 12-30-2006 at 09:28 AM. Reason: Additional thoughts!
Kellye C is offline   Reply With Quote
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112