A Forever Recovery

My parents talking me into doing the program at A Forever Recovery has been the greatest thing for me. I’ve gone to my parents a lot over the years, asking for help. It always amazed me that my parents never gave up on trying to help me, they’ve always been supportive and have always helped me find and get into treatment for my drug addiction. When my parents started talking to me about AFR, I was at a point in my life where I just wanted to give up. I wasn’t suicidal, I didn’t actually want to die, but I was really tried of it all and I wasn’t that far away from becoming suicidal. So, when my parents told me about AFR and asked me to go there, I said no. They kept pushing though and I finally did agree to go. I got to A Forever Recovery 9 months ago, and amazingly I loved it there. Being at AFR was a lot easier for me than I’d expected. The staff are pretty great when you’re going through detox. There are people who work at AFR who have been addicts as well so when I went through detox, I had people helping me who really understood what I was going through. The pains and discomforts that you feel when detoxing can be brutal and because they had experienced it themselves, they knew the best way to help. I did the SMART program at AFR. There are different programs there but, that’s the program that I was most interested in. I’ve gone through 12-step programs before and they just don’t work for me. That’s one thing I really loved about AFR, I wasn’t made to do the same program as everyone else, I didn’t have to hope that doing another 12-step program would help me when it’s never helped before. I also stayed at AFR for 2 months which helped me a lot. I’m still sober, which is amazing. I’ve been home for 7 months and I haven’t used at all. It’s been 9 months since the last time I used and 7 of those months have been at home. I feel amazing.