Re: The internet


Now, absolutely no offense intended, but unless you have graduated from
the school of hard knocks, division of drug addiction, you're not going to
have much credibility with most drug addicts.

No offense taken at all. No validity to your assumption either, but that's
okay. You need to believe what you need to believe. I see by result what
sort of counselor I am with the addicts I come in contact with. And whether
or not I was/am/will ever be an addict has nothing to do with it. Going
with your assumption, a therapist could not counsel someone depressed unless
they've BEEN depressed, a priest could not counsel married couples never
having been married, etc.

You speak from YOUR vantage point of YOUR addiction Ed and I respect that.
I just happen to know your quote above is incredibly wrong.

And I agree there is *some* spiritual aspect to recovery, but I disagree
that you can't charge for services and inject some spirituality. Given that
I do not embrace any conventional religion, I would have to guess you'd
assume (again wrongly) that I also could not counsel on that basis.

Thankfully, the results are in my therapeutic puddin'..... my clients and I
have wonderful rapport (no, not 100% of my clients, that would be unheard
of) and for those I've followed over the last 3 years, approximately 88%
have stayed sober. I don't take credit for that at all, but I, and they,
acknowledge that the team we made, made a difference. Given that only
approximately 25% of the people going through rehab stay sober, that's not a
bad record thus far.

And that's why I'll be working with those IN recovery eventually, and not
preaching religion or spirituality, and not judging, and not excusing, and
not assuming......

I"m good at what I do. Very good in fact. And whether or not I was/am/or
ever will be an addict has little to do with that.


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