What to Expect When My Loved One Goes to Rehab at Narconon?
This
is a very good question for a family to ask when sending a loved one
to a Narconon rehab center. The family is going to play an important
role in the person’s recovery—all the way through the recovery
program and even after he (or she) comes home.
If
the person going to rehab was highly motivated to overcome the
addiction, then the family may mostly need to support him through the
ups and downs he may experience. After all, as a person’s mood
starts to improve and his perceptions sharpen, it is possible for him
to be hit rather hard by a new awareness of all the harm he has done
while addicted. He will work through a repair of this harm soon, but
there may be many difficult moments as a person faces the disasters
of the past.
In
other cases, the family may just barely have managed to get the
addicted person into rehab at all. She may have argued all the way to
the front door. This family is going to have to stay strong and
united until the program can work for her. She may call and complain
about the staff and the center at every opportunity. She may invent
problems and reasons she needs to leave rehab immediately. Sometimes
a person successfully wears the family down and they come and pick
her up and take her home. If they do, sobriety normally doesn’t
last long at all.
As the Program Does its Work
The
Narconon program works on key aspects of a person’s life that
were damaged by addiction. It is a step-by-step approach whereby each
step completed gives a person the ability to face the next
set of consequences. It may take time for a person in recovery to be
ready to talk to his parents, his wife or ex-wife or his children
again. He may need to be most of the way through the program before
his self-respect is restored enough to reach out to those he has
harmed. A family may need to wait for the person to be ready to open
up to them again.
But
this is not always the case. Sometimes, a family hears the life and
laughter come back into a person’s voice earlier in the program.
Many parents have commented on the changes that have occurred after
the New Life Detoxification step is done. A person’s outlook and
mood can improve so much that he starts to sound like the person they
lost years before.
Those in Recovery Help Each Other
While
the family stays strong during the phone calls and visits, those in
recovery help each other every day. Those nearer the end of the
program tell those at the beginning to stick with it because the
Narconon program works. The new arrivals realize that the students
who are about to graduate were just like them a month or two ago.
This helps steady them if things get difficult.
Recovery,
in general, is a very challenging process for anyone to go through.
Those in rehab realize how much harm they have brought to their
families and their communities. With the steady support of the
Narconon staff, their families and even the others who are further
along in the program than they are, each person can make it all the
way. He can build the sober living skills that will protect him after
he goes home, no matter what happens.
By
staying strong and supportive, a family helps the Narconon program
get the result of a person who is sober and strong and ready to start
a new life. For more information about Narconon program call us today. +45 70 60 60 03
