What are the Choices after Rehab?
In this short but thought-provoking video Mark Abrami, an addictions therapist at Castle Craig rehab, describes the contrast between addiction and recovery.
Abrami describes addiction as “about isolation, about loneliness, about a sense of ignorance and arrogance.” Abrami contemplates how “addiction creates unemployment and an inability to be responsible” but, once in recovery, a person in recovery is motivated to start looking into educational, personal development and working opportunities.
A long term alcoholic or drug addict usually costs the family, the community and the state a lot of money. Abrami explains that “part of recovery is of course a sense of giving back to the community, giving back to yourself, giving back to your family.”
Mark Abrami is from Glasgow and he works as an addictions therapist at Castle Craig, one of the UK’s best alcohol & drug addiction rehab centres, located near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Castle Craig was founded in 1988 and is one of the UK’s most established and respected addiction centres. Set in 50 acres of private parkland, the dedicated team of psychiatrists, doctors, nurses and therapists have helped thousands of people from all over the UK and the world recover from addictions.
Mark!!!! youre awsome!
Castle Craig is the best experience of my life!
Greetings from Holland!!
Wow I am a person who does believe in coincidence and I could not have came across this video at a better time. I have not long left the castle and I am still fighting with my demons and struggling on in the trap of addiction. Seeing this video makes me realise I should have made more out of my opportunity at the Castle. I tried getting my highers after coming out of the castle, went back to school but because of my major relapse it has been a disaster. Things were ‘managable’ at first, enrolling school during the week but then like jeckel and hyde, facing my demons at the weekends. Slowly but surely things went from bad to worse and I eventually fucked everything up and I am now really struggling. Even while drinking I still made the school every day and was plannig to get out of here to put my past behind me once I finished my highers but one weekend I eneded up in serious trouble and ended up getting charged for a serious assualt. The consiquences were I got thrown out of school because I am on bail and I am an adult returner. The school had given me a sense of purpose and now without that sense of purpose I am really struggling, plus a curfew on top of it, it is just a nightmare. But I will struggle on and I am trying to teach myself the rest of the higher courses myself from home and I am just hoping I can salvage something out this mess. Good to see you again Marki, this video has given me a bit of inspiration. Wee Gary from the highlands :)
thanx for everything xxxxx from syl from holland