Question by jackie: Do recovered addicts or mentally ill people get hired ?
If someone has the right education but due to mental health issues, they’ve been out of the work force for few years. But they are now fully recovered and ready to get back to work.
What do employers think of people who took a hiatus due to mental issues ?
HOw do you explain the HUGE gap between the year one graduated til now ?
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Answer by B.B. Wolf You don’t tell an employer the true reason you were out of work … you need to learn to give “creative answers” to prospective employers … The are still far too many employers that will hold these things against you ……………………………………..
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Question by “smooothoperator”: Can a couple that were once drug addicts get clean and stay together clean and sober? or should they split?
Hello, a really good friend of mine started doing drugs with her boyfriend about a year ago and finally realized they hit rock bottom so they went to a couple of AA/NA meetings and relapsed a few times but a majority of people at the meetings keep telling them that they will never make it “together” because they are both triggers to each other. But then another couple said they are doing it clean and sober for 8 months now. She keeps asking me what to do, should she break up with him, get clean then see if it will work or just break up and be friends or just try it? She is totally putting her relationship in my hands but I am scared of giving her the wrong answers. Id rather NOT be involved in any way. But I am her bestest friend so please can I get some input?
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Answer by breanna m you can definately make it together. you can correct your mistakes and lean on eachother to get through it. as long as the ot her person isnt pulling you down and holding you back from getting better
Question by hunnerbunner: What treatment works to stop addiction? Former addicts answers please…?
I know that there are lots of theories out there.
Is there any hope? Or is one plan just as likely to fail as all others?
My son is addicted. His drug of choice is DXM. He’ll take anything though…and I mean anything if he thinks it will get him high.
He’s living in our home and we wanted to allow him time to try and beat this on his own but it’s not happening. He steals our cars, our money, our medicines, and he set up a camera to get the combination in order to get into our safe and take what was there. I’m tired of this new life I live.
I love him and don’t want to kick him to the streets but he’s not willing to go get help.
I have no complete faith in any treatment because there is nothing that is sure to work, at least it doesn’t seem so. He’s 18 and so we could unload thousands upon thousands in a treatment program just to watch him walk away from it and we’d be stuck with the bill. He no longer has a conscience and so he would not care that he did this to us.
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Answer by sourcherry119 I’m so sorry that your son has started a life of addiction so young. Regardless of age or drug of choice, addiction is so mind boggling and emotionally frustrating – you want to cut them off in hopes they change, and they don’t,.. and it gets worse .. so for fear of their lives you help them.. and the cycle ends up perpetuating.
There are treatments for addiction but they all require some sort of co-operation from the addict – in the end, nothing will change if they don’t want to.
Medication is available to help, psychotherapy or counselling, and support groups as well.
You should know that this CAN be treated… don’t always look at it as failure even though there is a lot of it. It takes so much perseverance and is so damn difficult – but sometimes we have to draw the line and let them take control of their own life.
The best option in my own opinion is an intervention. The addict doesn’t always realize how they are effecting others they care about or even the extent that others care about them. They don’t always see your sacrifice or your emotional pain… just waiting and dealing with their own hell. This doesn’t mean they are deliberately selfish.. it’s just how addiction works.
If you would like to do research – I would suggest watching the tv show “Intervention”. of course it is television – so not always accurate.. but it gives a good representation of addiction from both sides of the battle and how an intervention works. Perhaps consulting with a therapist or counselor from your area who could lead the intervention if it was too overwhelming to do yourself.
I really wish the best of luck to you and your significant other. I admire you for doing the best you can with what you have … it’s such a difficult struggle. I hope your son finds his way again.
- Kaylynn
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recoverynowtv.com Meet Mike Cohan, host of Recovery Now. Clean and sober for over six years, Mike explains the Recovery Now mission: to show those who still struggle with drug and alcohol addiction that hope is real. Sarah Michelle, 24, shares her story of adolescent drug addiction, bulimia, and triumphant recovery. Zach has over three years of sobriety and tells his story of recovery from alcoholism. Lauren, an articulate and enthusiastic recovering heroin addict, performs an on-stage intervention on her childhood friend, Todd, who is also a heroin addict. Will he accept help? Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Question by christina6marie: What kind of support is out there for recovering drug addicts, I have been clean for 3 years?
I do not want to attend meeting with 1 week or a few days sober people because I am weak. I pulled myself out and never looked back. I have questions, I watch intervention and I envy them because they are high…I think one more time…no my kids, my family, my life…but I want to get high. Where can I go?
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Answer by 57rider maybe you feel sad or have a mental condition that makes you want to get high to feel happy, a counselor or psychiatrist may be able to help you. if you have to work to make money for your family alot of jobs have random drug testing so that stops alot of people from using drugs because they know they will lose their job if they have illegal drugs in their system.i don’t know of any support groups hopefully someone else on yahoo answers can help you find one, good luck to you
Two meth addicts tell life recovery story
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