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Old 02-02-2014, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by skatebowls View Post
I am living in a sober environment. My sponsor and Landlord suggest that I do not go to a treatment facility. Partly because they need my money I pay for rent.
THere are plenty of other people needing to live in a sober environment. THey can find another tenant. It's not your problem.


I really need additional help and am doing nothing to better myself here, and feel like I'm sinking lower and lower into depression. I told them I would call them everyday but they still don't want me to go. I need this change in my life and I need to separate myself and become my own man. It's time for a change.
I think you're right on the money here. It doesn't sound like a good environment for you to be in any more, even though at one stage in your recovery it might have been. Time to go!

All I'm doing is pretty much stalking people online and p*ssing a lot of people off just bothering them with there busy lives and my idle time. So what should I do? Should I go back to a treatment center? The one I was looking at is Salvation Army Adult Rehabiliation Center. They give you 3 meals a day, you work and actually get to go to Church and meetings all day. I'll be around other addicts and alcoholics. And actually some girls too.
Sounds like a plan. Sitting around all day with nothing to do is a recipe for disaster.

I would get to keep my money that I pay for rent and actually help them more by offering them God instead of money. I'm going to give my Landlord my food stamp assistance card so I can receive benefits while in the Salvation Army.
Do not give your landlord your food stamp assistance. It's fraud and illegal. Your sponsor/landlord's financial situation is not your problem. Make your arrangements to go. Keep it to yourself if you need to. You don't need your sponsor's permission to go to rehab.

What you are describing around your sponor/living situation sounds really dangerous and toxic. I'd get out of there pronto, if I were you.
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