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Katie09 · 03-04-2009, 04:57 PM

All I can say is here I sit trying to make the best choice for rehab, considering the thousands of dollars involved, with a guy who flew in from SoCal to help me. We've been drinking from Sat until trying to ponder our options. In the interim, I've consulted with my psychiatrist, my therapist, my two girlfriends, another guy friend (hard core AA which will never cut it for me, for any 12 step program is out and options are limited in this country). Oh - and even his normie wife and a smart woman in Orange County.

It's been so crazy that I put 3K down on a program to reverse the charge, only to reverse that! I should add I've negotiated things down fewer thousand and to 30 days (no one seems to think I need longer than that) and we may reach an agreement and I have another 45 minutes to do so. Meanwhile, there was a program in FL that sounded good too. Nonetheless, I know CA and have never been to FL. My hope is we both stop drinking enough to get me somewhere and fast. It's so hard when with an active drunk and desperate to accomplish much. Of course, it's so much easier to take the edge off. It doesn't help he worked as an alcohol counselor in the DOD for 15 years and spent 18 years sober in AA, only to realize he was done with that. At the risk of getting flamed here, he's already told me I know whatever anyone else is going to tell me. Even my therapist said I am too bright for a lot of things. So...the dilemma is I sit here typing, while he is sleeping, trying to figure out what the hell to do in a haze.

03-04-2009, 04:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
Katie09 Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,141	The blind leading the blind All I can say is here I sit trying to make the best choice for rehab, considering the thousands of dollars involved, with a guy who flew in from SoCal to help me. We've been drinking from Sat until trying to ponder our options. In the interim, I've consulted with my psychiatrist, my therapist, my two girlfriends, another guy friend (hard core AA which will never cut it for me, for any 12 step program is out and options are limited in this country). Oh - and even his normie wife and a smart woman in Orange County. It's been so crazy that I put 3K down on a program to reverse the charge, only to reverse that! I should add I've negotiated things down fewer thousand and to 30 days (no one seems to think I need longer than that) and we may reach an agreement and I have another 45 minutes to do so. Meanwhile, there was a program in FL that sounded good too. Nonetheless, I know CA and have never been to FL. My hope is we both stop drinking enough to get me somewhere and fast. It's so hard when with an active drunk and desperate to accomplish much. Of course, it's so much easier to take the edge off. It doesn't help he worked as an alcohol counselor in the DOD for 15 years and spent 18 years sober in AA, only to realize he was done with that. At the risk of getting flamed here, he's already told me I know whatever anyone else is going to tell me. Even my therapist said I am too bright for a lot of things. So...the dilemma is I sit here typing, while he is sleeping, trying to figure out what the hell to do in a haze. Last edited by Katie09; 03-04-2009 at 05:14 PM.