So often intervention by family and friends turns into enabling and professional intervention is what is needed.
When It Is Time for a Professional Intervention
by Cheryl A Hinneburg
The cat is out of the bag. Your loved one knows that their addiction is no longer a secret. You have begged and pleaded with them multiple times to get help. You have run out of threats to use if they do not quit using. You check to see if they are breathing when they are asleep. You cannot sleep until you know they are home. You cry more often than not and you love them so much that you actually love them to death. This is when you know it is time to seek the help of a professional, before it is too late.
Professional interventionists have the personal and professional experience to handle this procedure precisely. The whole thesis behind an intervention is to take whatever means are necessary to get your loved one into treatment. Realistically, this can be difficult. Most people suffering from addiction have had it too easy and their loved ones are often at fault because they love them so much.
During an intervention, your loved ones bags are packed and the time to enter treatment is right then, not after they make some calls or use one more time. Now! The tough part comes in when they refuse treatment. With the help of a trained interventionist all of the bottom lines have already been determined. The purpose is to leave your loved one with no choice. This is where tough love comes into play.
Throughout your loved ones addiction almost every family member has taken on a role and it is one that is greater than they understand or ever fathomed. Maybe you allow your loved one to remain in your home when you know they are using, maybe you offer financial support, maybe you offer transportation. Whatever the case, you do it out of love, but it ends when your loved one refuses treatment.
You have to force their hitting rock bottom, you have to be firm and you have to mean it. This is very hard to do and why a professional needs to help. You have to be strong enough to say you have to leave my home, I am no longer giving you any money or rides, and I am not going to take any calls from you unless you are calling to enter treatment.
Professional interventionists know how to help you handle the guilt that is involved in delivering this kind of ultimatum. It may sound harsh and it will likely tear at your heart but it is often the only way to avoid the pain of finding your loved one dead from an overdose. Then it is too late. If you have a loved one that is addicted to drugs or alcohol you need to understand that this is bigger than you and you need help. Call in the aid of a professional interventionist today!
Cheryl Hinneburg is the content writer about addiction for KLEAN Treatment Center. Cheryl is working on her MS in substance Abuse counseling.
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Editorial Comment: I like the comment "The tough part comes in when they refuse treatment. With the help of a trained interventionist all of the bottom lines have already been determined. The purpose is to leave your loved one with no choice. This is where tough love comes into play." This is often the most trying part of getting someone treatment, or even to admit that they need help.