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I don't feel well enough to go to detox?????

Young or old it's all the same...

When you are young, alcohol and drugs are just the next step past the amusement park experience. You gravitate towards the most popular group in school and find that some of the coolest kids are doing drugs and alcohol. You go to parties and hang out with everyone and get high. It is scary and exciting to get high with your friends.

You’re older; you graduate and start your career search. Some of your friends have gotten into trouble, died or had children. You still enjoy getting high but you have to avoid it because you are looking for a job and they sometimes do drug tests.

You’re on your third dead end job and feeling a little sorry for yourself and increase your consumption of alcohol and drugs, hoping to experience that fun and exciting feeling again.

You met the love of your life and have a baby. You both have to work to get by and life is not getting easier it’s getting more complicated and you’re not very happy anymore.

You remember the school parties and the fun and begin drinking but it’s not working like it used to. It is not as fun as it used to be.

You’re divorced, on a different job and drinking to forget your troubles.

You are in the hospital. You had a DUI and you’re angry at yourself and the world for ruining your life.

You have been through several disappointing relationships and you don’t like this job either. So you start black out drinking and staying drunk for longer periods of time.

You realize you are depending on alcohol as more of a crutch than fun refreshment and begin questioning whether you actually want or like alcohol at all.

You will deny you have a problem and continue drinking but try to exercise more control over it.

You will try, realize you are failing and guilt will get its grip on you.

You’re mind will try to protect you from the reality of the situation and denial will take control again.

When you only have yourself to discuss these issues with, continued drinking will almost always have the upper hand.

You think you are in control and you can take alcohol or leave it. You’ve occasionally drank too much but you can quit at anytime.

Today you just decided drink. You could kick yourself because you make it a point never to drink before noon, yet today you did.

You’ve quit alcohol several times before and you’ll do it again, but you are worried this time and you know you need help. You fear that this time, trying to quit on your own may be disastrous or even life threatening.

You buy your last bottle and decide to wean yourself into some appearance of sobriety; drinking just enough to ward off the nausea while you search for some sort of assistance.

This time when you try to quit it becomes increasingly harder to tolerate your withdrawal. Your spouse continues to nag at you. They suspect you may have a serious drinking issue since you wake up looking and acting hung over, and they ask you to please try to quit.

When others stopped, they literally looked like they were dying. Their shakes were so bad they simply sweated it out in bed for nearly a week - sleeping an hour, then waking for two or three treacherous hours, and finally merciful sleep again. They were physically ill often and simply leaned over the side of their beds dry heaving into a pail.

You don’t want to die but you don’t want to put up with all the humiliation and stupidity you have to put up with at the hospital. You have heard it all before and here you are again.

Something traumatic has to influence you to change. Serious health issues, or extreme guilt and embarrassment have to force you to stop drinking.

You become impatient and dismissive with those around you. Your hands tremble and nausea sets in as you try to make it through the fist 12 hours of sobriety.

At first all you can do is think about feeling better with some kind of drug or a drink.

You are on a positive path to achieving your goal to "Get a life" and not die from alcohol.

You will find that there are many options from rehabilitation facilities to private treatment.

Given your years in a high profile profession, you opt for private treatment and make the phone call.

You will be helped in your long term recovery by a medical professional.

You will experience a prescribed treatment for detoxification and an anti craving drug protocol. This will help you tolerate your withdrawal symptoms and improve your cognitive abilities so you can realign your goals to get the most out of your last chance to “Get a life.”

You will have the upper hand over your personal freedom from alcohol. More importantly, you won the battle using your own professional intelligence and didn’t attempt to fight this battle on your own.

When you read that unsupervised withdrawal from alcohol can be more dangerous than withdrawing from heroin, your suspicions of danger was justified.

Learning that abruptly stopping alcohol consumption can cause a potentially fatal chemical imbalance was all you needed to know to make the call for professional alcohol recovery treatment.

Be proud that you had the courage to ask for help!

Maybe you can share your experience and save someone else?