Graduated Treatment

[madison1101]

I just got home from my last time in my treatment group. I thought I would be happy, but I feel like crying. I don't understand why I am so emotional right now. It really has me wondering what is wrong with me.

The group was a really good group, with a lot of sharing and I got to meet some new people, I had not met before. I was asked if I had any parting words before I left. I basically shared how important going to meetings and working the steps was, as it was when I neglected my meetings, I relapsed. I reminded the group that the first word in the first step is 'We.'

I had not been able to call the therapist ahead of time to get a letter/discharge summary, so that I could give it to my private therapist. He told me to call him in the morning and tell him. It's very important to me that he put it in writing that I am ready to leave treatment. My individual therapist and I had a knock down/drag out over this issue a few weeks ago.

I have 93 days of sobriety today. I have been in treatment for 11 months, at two different facilities. I have been in AA almost twenty years. I have learned more about myself, the program, and recovery in the past 11 months than in the first nineteen years of AA.

Hope everyone is sober today.

Hugs,
Trish

 

[Jeffz]

Congratulations Trish on you recovery, it is only today that we have anyway. As far as your emotions and crying is a normal step in leaving treatment, at least it was for me, it's like going into a new season. Trust God and know that He will sustain you apparently you are becoming able to see yourself as you truly are. I have had to work on my relationship with my Savior God and have Him give me the power to change, not of myself but through the power of His Holy Spirit.
One man set free,
Jeffz

 

[BobW188]

Nothing wrong with you. It's like that when you leave a group with whom you've shared a common struggle. As endings near and happen, it's amazing how misty-eyed and warm hearted to can get even towards people you've always thought were esso bees

 

[BlessEwe]

Don't you remember going to camp as a kid... In the beginning we hated it, and felt out of place. By the end of the camp we made best friends and cried leaving..LOL.. got everyone's phone number. So you are ready to move to the next step...Congrats. you are walking the walk!

 

[hotsauce5000]

congrats trish, keep it up