Family | Money | Watchful Waiting | Shame | Denial

Overcoming Barriers to Seeking Drug and Alcohol Rehab.

Family – One prominent barrier alcoholics and drug addicts often face and ask themselves when seeking the rehab they need to recover from drug and alcohol addiction and abuse is: “Who will shoulder the responsibility of taking care of my children when I am away for 30, 60, or 90 days?” Taking care and providing for your loved ones is a very rewarding, fulfilling, and loving responsibility. We often ask our clients and potential clients, “How long do they expect to enjoy that responsibility and feeling if they are behind bars for DWI, DUI, or other numerous legal consequences associated with drug and alcohol abuse!? Realistically, what is the quality of care you are giving your loved ones drunk or high”

 As a member of Deer Creek Recovery staff, our profession is very rewarding. We get to watch the joy and happiness of sober moms, dads, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, and other familial relations and friends reuniting with their families!! Happier then they have ever been! On the other side of the token we hear and see far too many cases where Child Protective Services or other family members who have to intervene on the child’s behalf because the parent did not seek the help they so earnestly needed!

If by some unfortunate event you were diagnosed with a terminal illness other then alcoholism or drug addiction such as cancer and you were told that you had to have an operation, be hospitalized, and undergo treatment for 30-90 days. Ironically, almost all of our clients admit they would be able to find suitable arrangements such as a: grandparent, spouse, aunt or uncle, cousin, other family member, or even close friend in a couple of days or even hours. The grim reality is alcohol and drug abuse is no different. It is a disease that will eventually take the life of the abuser. Drug and alcohol addiction is an extremely powerful disease that does not discriminate based on: age, wealth, race, social status, religion, or gender. The disease “takes no prisoners!”

We understand all to well the pain associated with drug and alcohol abuse. We also understand the pain of being away from loved ones for an extended period of time. This is a primary reason we will design your program to incorporate loved ones including visits, phone calls and meetings. Call us now at 1-888-351-0553 to begin the healing process with you before it’s too late. - TOP

Money –

We understand that money often times can be an impediment in starting the recovery process. We encourage our clients to think about and calculate their monthly bar tabs, drug tabs, attorney’s fees, and other various costs associated with drugs and alcohol.

Secondly, prospective clients are often afraid of job loss. While this is a reasonable concern, “How long do you expect to keep your job and hide your drinking and drugging from your employer before your tardiness, absenteeism, or worse creeps into the workplace?” We often ask our clients who are contemplating whether recovery is worth it. If you think about it…the cost of our program is just the cost of a big screen TV?

We encourage our clients to remember that we can design a flexible payment schedule with you. It is very common for our clients to pay with a combination of cash, check, and credit cards to pay for their program.

Finally, what is more valuable to you, living an enjoyable, fun, rewarding, sober life with your family and friends or losing it all the drug and alcohol addiction? Call our friendly admissions team 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at 1-888-351-0553 to begin an unforgettable and comfortable experience today! - TOP

“Watchful Waiting”

Watchful waiting is an approach commonly used by many alcoholics and drug addicts or a family member or close friend of an alcoholic or drug addict to see if the addict will get better on there own before seeking help. Watchful waiting includes observing a loved one or one’s self to see if they consume less alcohol, intake less drugs, “grow out of it” or by some miracle wake up one morning and stop “drinking and drugging” completely.  The fact is alcoholism and drug addiction is not a phase that one simply “grows out of” and abstinence is the only know proven and effective way to combat alcoholism and drug addiction. Many times the alcoholic or drug addict will  stop their addiction for a period of a couple of hours, days, weeks, and sometimes even a month or two only to find the problem resurface at a later time and begin drinking and using drugs all over again. Until the alcoholic and/or addict is assessed and is mindful of his or her condition, seeks the help they need, breaks this destructive cycle, and is taught how to manage their disease their condition only worsens!

Place a confidential call to our trained, experienced, and professional counselors today at 1-888-351-0553 to receive a free assessment and see if drug and alcohol rehabilitation is right for you. If so let the staff at Deer Creek Recovery Center help you develop an individualized rehab program that works! A program that fits your needs! Watchful waiting is never a good option to select due to the fact that alcoholics and drug addicts die watching and waiting before seeking the help they need. - TOP

Shame –

Shame or guilt far too often is a feeling that both male and female alcoholics and drug addicts share that hinders their ability to get the help that they need. This feeling incapacitates and paralyzes the alcoholic and drug addict from being “pro-active” in seeking the help they need. The alcoholic and drug addict often times feels ashamed of their behavior, lack of responsibility, and the disease itself. While it is important to understand that drinking and drugging is an irresponsible behavior it is equally important to understand that alcoholism and drug addiction is a serious DISEASE! It is important to understand that it is a disease that affects nearly 1 out of 5 Americans according to many studies and that it is NOT your fault. It is not your fault that you or your loved one has this deadly disease. More then likely you genetically inherited your disease and/or have acquired it from a variety of external environmental situations. It is on the other hand your responsibility and your fault to get the help you need in order to learn how to manage the disease. We always remind our prospective clients and clients that you can’t go back in time, alter the past, take hurtful actions, words, or behavior back, or change your genetic structure. But what you CAN do is start the healing process by calling us at 1-888-351-0449. You CAN learn the tools and techniques needed to manage your disease at Deer Creek Recovery Center. You CAN take back your life; mend broken relationships, start over, and life a healthy, meaningful, responsible, fun, exciting, and enjoyable life of abstinence from drug and alcohol. We understand the regret, shame, resentment, and pain you or your loved one feels from the mistakes they have made.

Call our expert counselors today at 1-888-351-0449 and stop the bleeding today. Stop the painful feelings and begin your recovery program at our comfortable, beautiful facility, Deer Creek Recovery Center. Our counselors are standing by and eager to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. - TOP

Denial –

Denial is a defense mechanism used by all human beings to protect them from the sudden shock of a loss or to face the reality of an unpleasant circumstance. For instance when an individual is informed of a loss of a loved one many people often deny the evidence initially to protect themselves from the sadness or grief accompanying the death of a loved one. Specifically, in our case, alcoholics and drug addicts will deny they have a chronic and sometimes terminal disease (if not properly managed in time) of alcoholism and addiction. You or your loved one may deny they have this disease because they have become so accustomed to, addicted, and dependent on alcohol and drugs they fear losing them. Especially when they learn that true recovery means abstinence!! More especially with physically addicting drugs alcohol, you or your loved ones mind will convince themselves and reinforce their denial so that they may continue feeding the body and mind alcohol and drugs thus achieving the goal of physical addiction. For some clients it usually takes quite a bit of time for the mind and body to adjust to the idea of living without drugs and alcohol. This is one of the primary reasons the 90 day program is so beneficial it; affords the client time to adjust to a life of abstinence and the counselors more of an opportunity to break thru the denial barrier. Although it can be done in our 30 day program it usually is just much more intense. For some of our clients they simply “go thru the motions” and “act” in an attempt to “skate” by in our recovery program. But as the days go on the client begins to “drop the act” and get comfortable and accept the reality that they do have a disease. At the point the tears begin to flow and it is such a beautiful thing. It is such a beautiful thing because the client is made whole again. The client smiles a genuine smile, families, friendships, and relations are made whole again, the client begins to retake their life full of confidence, self worth, love, respect, responsibility, and numerous other POSITIVE CHARACTERISTICS freely flow out of the client’s soul again. The client learns to embrace their disease and a life of abstinence and ABSOLUTELY LOVES AND ADORES IT because they are so much stronger and happier then they ever have been in their lives. - TOP

Call us now at 1-888-351-0553 and make arrangements with our admissions staff to begin YOUR recovery program today!