[Jerzy007]

Change is extremely scary, and I'm really in a bad way. I moved here from Trenton, NJ, about 4 moths ago to get clean and sober after being clean and sober for 3 years and relapsing for a year, my depression set in at the end of those three years after failing miserably at relationships, (comparing myself to others) i dont know how to make friends or talk to people, and did not get any better through a year of therapy and Coda anonymous(read a couple of Pia Melody's books). After practicing the program AA for those three years and not getting anybetter socially i decided to alleviate the loneliness weekends and pain the best way i knew how-heroin. ( None the less I became rather religious, prayed the rosary alot, read, and meditated during my time sober because I was alone alot...even visited Medugorge with the elderly who i seemed to relate too.) Now, im clean and sober 4 months and back in the same depressive cycle...most areas of my life came together very orderly, brought my car which i earned in NJ down here, landed a good job, just moved out of my halfway house into a townhouse, but socially full of fear and really depressed about it. I'm going to get high today for some relief before i implode and end up at a psych hospital. I've been getting high for so long that i know that it helps me maintain and function. and if i live long enough for my benefits and allowed time off from work to kick in im gonna get psychiatric help.
So where do you advise your clients to start after putting down mood altering substances and identifying their love addiction? And have you seen many success' with your patients?