How to help the recovering addict?

 


The process of recovering drug addicts person begins with the adoption of the decision to start treatment and ends with full return to normal life. The long and gradual process of returning to society full of its members should be conducted by professional therapists in drug dependence with close addict people and his own active participation. Drugs are a destructive influence on the emotional and social maturity, which makes it difficult to return to a life without drugs. And because so peculiar psychological help recovering drug addicts at every stage of treatment.
The first stage - the decision on refusal of drugs. The task of physicians and parents at this stage is the conviction of drug dependence in fact he is not alone in facing this kind of problem. And that many people can not get rid of drug addiction. Ambient should give hope to recovering a better future. Thus, overcome indecision and anxiety disappears.
It is very important to establish close contact with the doctor. To do this, sometimes sacrificing a sense of parents, for whom remains unclear importance of communicating to their child alone with the doctor. At the initial stage of treatment a doctor should understand what causes the patient was forced to resort to drugs and care commensurate with the cost of these individual characteristics.
From the outset, one needs to convince the dependent person is that he will recover, but it must make and their own efforts. This will help develop a sense of autonomy and dependent self-confidence. A doctor at the first stage should provide most of the entire received addicts intellectual and emotional support.
The second stage - the process of treating the physical and psychological dependence. After discontinuation of drugs, the patient carried out the procedures for detoxification. This period is aimed at ridding the patient of the physical torment and mental stress. A dependent is in a state where the psychological impact should work on the principle of "all your actions are correct, you're on the right track." Support - is the main tool for this moment, which not only reduces the treatment to the physiological purification, but also helps shape the patient sustained motivation to achieve a healthy lifestyle.
The third stage - back into society. Finding a patient in a hospital isolate and simultaneously prepare him to return to society. In the clinic the patient is easier to start changing their interests. Here the tasks of doctors and family members are familiarizing the patient to self-knowledge, occupational therapy, art, sports, hobbies. Psychotherapy is needed to establish the integrity of the individual. In this stage, external influence and persuasion of doctors are the most productive. But do not expect an instant return to the patient in a society of healthy people. Former drug addicts need help to determine its relation to reality. Do not require a full-fledged entry into the circle of healthy peers. Because this process is better to gradually and by a single re-establish contact.
At this stage it is very important role of parents and loved ones. Parents should seek to restore the lost understanding. This is done to restrain the desire to do the moral suggestion, reproach, to impose their views. Also a common mistake parents considered their impatience. Therefore, parents should understand that drug addiction - is a heavy dependence, to overcome which takes time. And on its part to support the formation of new positive life attitudes and habits.