Family/Relationship Counseling

Labels such as Codependent, Hero, Scapegoat, Mascot, and Lost Child are often used to classify family members. Although this is fairly easy to do it just continues to encourage individualist separation from the family. Family likeness and continuity are normally not addressed. In the long run many treatment participants leave their short stay with a deeper indentation of being an outcast, different than the rest of the family and community. Feeling even more singled out and alone, the person thriving for acceptance and love is headed towards further feelings of not being a needed person, in the family and society, and probable depression. Add this to abusing alcohol and or other drugs (AOD) and further down the funnel the person will go. In search of what their PROBLEM is they seek out doctors to see if medication can alleviate this weight of nonaccomplishment and not fitting in. Normally, the doctor needs to continue having a practice, making money, and keeping satisfied patients, so they prescribe Xanex, Valium, Ativan, and other products that are just not a good idea for the AOD abuser.