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Luxury Rehab
Is there any disadvantage to going to rehab on a tropical island or beach spa type place. We are picking a place for my sister and the costs are outrageous. Beyond this, many of the places seem to be selling themselves more like vacation resorts than places of treatment. I don’t want to be the Grinch of the family bit it seems to me that she has lacked responsibility her whole life and everyone has always just picked up the pieces for her so she never had to learn to do it herself. Now she’s really messing up so she’s getting sent to rehab, but instead of getting sent somewhere serious, we are all looking over places with massages and private chefs. Isn’t there an advantage to going to a place that isn’t like a vacation? It seems to me she should go to the Salvation Army or someplace similar, so at least she can start to face the consequences of what she has become. Am I correct? Is there something I am missing?
Read answer →Staying clean after time in a Buddhist rehab retreat
There is this non profit Buddhist meditation and mindfulness based rehab in Thailand where it only costs like 20$ a day and you can stay for as long as you like in this community of sustainable agriculture and meditation and overnight silence. It’s all in the mountains and jungles and it looks incredibly peaceful. I am a cocaine and alcohol addict. I can clean up for a while but I can’t stay clean. This program that I am talking about looks really god and I can actually afford it. I am thinking about dropping out of the world for a few months to live like a monk. My worry is that even if I can stay clean for 3 months in a meditation retreat in the jungle does this make it very likely that I will be able to stay clean once I am back here in Chicago?
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