A treatment client is never quite happy about the way she feels.
Almost every other week she requests to have her medication adjusted. She either wants more, or less. She can never quite find the right combination to keep her in balance.
She's been in enough treatment programs - and knows enough about symptoms - that she usually gets what she wants.
When she tires of her current drug she'll have a good story. She'll need more. It’s not working. It makes her too tired, or too wired. Or it makes her sleep too much. It makes her head hurt. Or stomach. It makes her dizzy. On and on..
If she can just find the right combination life will be okay
She doesn't seem to understand that she probably wasn't born with a drug deficiency. She doesn't quite grasp the idea that the goal of the treatment program is to help her live – as much as possible -drug and alcohol free.
Until she gets the message her recovery will always be precarious.
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