How to help a family member with
addiction problems?
The family can have a significant positive influence on the affected person's decision to undergo treatment and overcome their problem. In fact, the family is often the element that can most effectively help in this.
From the Victoria Program we offer you a short guide to deal with this situation and help the person who needs psychological treatment to stop drinking alcohol or consuming other drugs.
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We must talk about a solution... not a problem
There is no need to insist further on how bad the person who abuses alcohol or cocaine is. He assumes that he already knows it , even if he has never openly admitted it and always tends to justify or minimize the consequences of his addictive behavior.
He knows it... because he is the first to suffer from it. That is why it is important to talk to him about a solution. To offer him professional therapeutic help . To talk to him about the benefits that everyone will obtain when the problem has been overcome.
Push him to start treatment, not to stop it.
If we exert pressure in the direction of trying to get him to stop drinking or using cocaine, we will be creating greater anxiety , since the problem of an dependent person is precisely that he is not able to control himself, and therefore, we are asking him for something that is beyond his reach, and we are inducing him, without wanting to, to fail, to hide his behavior, to lie, to aggressiveness...
If we push you to put yourself in the hands of professionals specialized in the treatment of addictions, we are asking you for something that you are qualified to do. Nothing prevents you from attending a consultation with us , evaluating your particular case and beginning the recovery process.
That is why pressure should always be directed towards getting the patient to undergo treatment . One or more therapeutic alternatives should be offered so that the patient can choose the one that best suits his or her personal characteristics.
Be firm in pressure
It is easy for the wife to say in the middle of an argument that she is not willing to continue like this, that if he does not stop drinking or using, they will separate, and then, after a while, to soften, once the anger has passed, and to accept the intentions of the addicted relative to change. This does not help . On the contrary, it contributes to the addictive behavior continuing to dominate the person who suffers from it.
Pressure should always be directed toward getting treatment , and you must also be firm and follow through on any "threat" you make.
In short, the message is this: if you get treatment, I'm here for you and you can count on my full support to get through it. If you don't, I'm not willing to continue like this and our relationship will end.
Sometimes it is necessary to have professional help to carry out these interventions. If you want to consult us about your particular case, write us a message and we will help you.
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