Taking back someday: help my friends get sober

I live in a small town where more parents bury their children, also creating more orphans than should be natural and after studying psychology, spending upwards of 40 weeks in different mental institutions and also having been through addiction myself and recovery I have ideas on an alternate route of recovery that might actually allow people to return to their original triggered areas and still maintains sobriety and happiness by fixing a problem and not just trying to erase the effects of it. By treating addiction like what it is, a mental illness, and treating what actually caused that mental illness and not what we have become because of that into illness. If we accept who we are as humans and accept our flaws and weaknesses we might not want to trade our lives with somebody else’s or with death.  people that want to be the people they are that don’t need vacations from themselves. Society doesn’t have a drug problem. We have a problem with people wanting to be people and people accepting people and people helping people

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While traditional rehabs and mental hospitals may work for some people it is not a one-size-fits-all recovery. For some people these type places might be too structured and seen like a prison and a punishment. People struggling with illness need self worth and self-respect and value and feeling of belonging and being needed.

I think we get about 10 people together that are struggling to maintain the illusion of being functioning members of society and would take them completely out of society with no contact and give them a common goal which is basically survival with different psychology values implanted in the daily struggles asking them to work with each other to help each other understand themselves and accept themselves while forming a sense of pride and community. We would do this for a few weeks in the summer time and everybody would have to eventually have their own shelter made and make their own food and weapons and take care of each other and be a part of something. They’ll be testing their physical and mental abilities because they have nothing but time to work on themselves and figure out why they failed at being human before and hopefully create lives that they don’t want to run from. They can pair off but each individual will be expected to spend at least part of the project by themselves to actually understand themselves and each person will be asked to document as much as possible their journey to help other people struggling with the same battles and also to help people understand that don’t have mental illness and hopefully bring our community together more so we will be more able to battle our past and take back some days. Too many people go to rehab and then are released and die and that’s because they’re okay in certain situations but they’re not okay and would originally cause their trauma and in healing that trauma we will be taking away that risk

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