My friend Annie suffered a very traumatic event three years ago, her house caught on fire but luckily her son wasn’t in the downstairs bedroom close to where the fire started. She has finally admitted she needs help because of the resulting drug usage afterwords. She’s finally checking into drug addiction counseling and I am so very proud of her. Just admitting she needs help is the first positive step to a full recovery. She has been through so very much emotionally that she turned to drugs to stop the guilt and pain she felt as the result of the fire.
Even though she knows it was not her fault, she just couldn’t stop thinking that her baby boy (who is actually 24) would have been caught in the fire and might not have been able to have gotten out because of where the fire started. At Realization Center LLC, they specialize in addiction and the underlying cause of it like a traumatic event. She’ll learn new ways to forgive herself even though we may not see that she needs to do that. I was just so very happy with her choice of treatment centers and I can’t wait to have my old friend back as good as she was before all of this!