What is the main reason people refuse to enter a drug and alcohol rehab center?  Once they are at a rehab center what is the main reason clients leave and do not succeed?  More often than not it is fear.  Before coming to a rehab the fear of the discomfort of withdrawl and drug detox looms large in their minds.  Because they have tried to stop drug and alcohol abuse many times in the past, the fear of failure one more time can become a very large roadblock.  There are many fears that play havoc with the chances of success. 

Fear that they will become a boring person often will keep people from treatment.  After using drugs and alcohol for many years sometimes people can't imagine what they would do for fun without these.  Fear of lose of their last few friends may also keep people back.  Addiction isolates people and any remaining friends usually use as well.  This leads to another fear of not being understood.  If you go back to having non-using friends will they understand all the things you have been through and have to cope with.

Fear of not being forgiven is another.  If you start feel like your family will never forgive you for some of the behaviors you have had in the past, it is easy to rationalize that you should never change.  The list of fears in a drug and alcohol rehab center is endless.  Dealing with and breaking through fear has to occur to move ahead in drug rehab.  For fear to hold you back two things have to occur.  Number one is letting the fear lead to failure through predicting the future.  If when you feel fear, your mind always see's a picture of you not being successful, it will block you.  The way to cope with this is to remember we all are really bad at predicting the future.  Every expert in every field makes bad predictions sooner or later.  So why would your predictions be 100% right?  The other is that fear is a feeling that involves "rules".  When you were young you were told to be afraid of strangers.  If you want to feel fear less often, simply write rules that are harder to meet.  You could make a rule to only be afraid of strangers, if you are lost, have no money and it is between 10 and 11 p.m. on the 3 third sunday of the month.  If you don't meet all of the above rules , maybe you will be only concerned instead of feeling fear.  If you think this idea of rules doesn't make sense, check out any of Tony Robbin's books, and you might think otherwise.  Fear blocks change.  Fear blocks change in drug rehab.  Deal with fear and move on.

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