Why Get Treatment Away From Home

Take a break from the normal Let’s face it: you are ready to get help with your addiction because you need a new “normal”. Living with your addiction has caused not only severe physical damages to your body, but it has also caused emotional damage. You may have a strained, or completely severed, relationship with members of your family. You may no longer have a job. You may have gotten into legal trouble. The cycle you have been living in needs to be broken, and sometimes the best way to do that is to get as far away from it as possible to be able to start new. This can include traveling away from home for treatment. Beginning a new normal can be near impossible to do if you’re still stuck in your old environment. You need time, space and clarity to be able to build your new life, and figuring out the way you want to live it. When you’re ready to return home, you will be able to implement it when strength, integrity and a clear mind. Learn how to deal with your triggers Being in the same situations and places that you were in during your addiction can be extremely triggering. Learning to navigate these triggers in addiction recovery can be very difficult if you are still around them all the time. There is a very high likelihood that you will be triggered too far; to the point that you relapse and eventually abandon treatment. This can lead you right back down the spiral of addiction, right where you started. Leaving the situation you are in allows you to learn how t...
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