Treatment of alcohol and drug addiction in South Africa

L from the UK discovered Stepping Stones:

"Today, I see going into treatment in South Africa one of the best things I ever did. My journey of recovery has been an eventful one, from having previously been in treatment in the UK, already attempting it once before and relapsing was one of the hardest lessons I've ever had to learn. Once again reaching that point of total desperation and feeling as though I could no longer live, I surrendered to the idea of going to South Africa. I did not want go. I was afraid of what it would be like and being so far away from home.

Some parts of treatment were fascinating, others were tough, but it was in those tough parts that I found growth. I found a solution to something I never had an answer to. Drink and drugs no longer worked and now I have found something in all of this that does.

Not getting it for such a long time, my treatment at the Beach House, I have stated to this day, has been the most beneficial. I was introduced to recovery and handed almost every recovery tool to use although not necessarily understanding the benefit at the time - the meetings, the necessity to find a sponsor, group therapy work, working well with a peer group full of support and care for one another and finding spirituality in a place as beautiful as Kommetjie.

I gained a lot of self-awareness and I faced a lot of fear which I have found makes me so much stronger. All the way throughout my life I have been hopeless. Now I see that I am powerless not hopeless. Although I couldn't see it at the time I can see it now. I feel like I finally grew up at the Beach House and ever since I have left I have started to build up the life that i thought i could never have.

As a 21-year-old young woman, I have a flat, a job and seven months of recovery. I love being involved in recovery, I do service, talk to others, attend meetings and work a programme in my life which has set me free. I feel completely able to keep on making the steps in my life and in my recovery that could make them both great ones.

I gained that enormous head start at The Beach House. For myself, I don't think I would have made it without that, and for that I am eternally grateful."

Patient story supplied by Stepping Stones.

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