A rehabilitation center.<\/li><\/ul>\n\nOnce the treatment has started, the relatives of the addicts must also carry out a therapeutic follow-up to understand the process that their family member is doing and thus understand this disease. This family process includes a broad learning about addiction, the different substances and their effects on the brain and at an emotional level; norms and limits in the relationships between other subjects.<\/p>\n\n
Additionally, family members need help for themselves, to heal relationships, learn to set limits, reorganize roles within the family, heal guilt, and forgive.<\/p>\n\n
Addiction generates codependency in many of the members of the family group; in the case of children, there is usually one or both of the parents who are codependent. In the case of an addicted husband or wife, there is codependency in the couple and in the case of the parents, some children create codependency with their addicted mother or father.<\/p>\n\n
The codependent is the one who dedicates themselves to caring for and “saving” the person with addiction, becoming obsessively involved in the situations and problems of the addicted family member, frustrated by repeated failures (relapses), acquiring characteristics and behaviors as abnormal as that of the addict. The codependent can lose control of their own life and its limits, investing all their energy in the addict, leading to self-neglect and the weakening of their own identity, unbalancing in the personal, family, work and social areas and getting involved to the point of living for the addict.<\/p>\n\n
In addition to individual and family therapy, some people in the family can benefit from codependent support groups.<\/p>\n\n
This process is similar to the Alcoholics Anonymous process, it is called CoDA Codependents Anonymous, where relationships are worked in a 12-step process. CoDA is not only attended by relatives of addicts, CoDA is a program designed to learn how to have healthy relationships. There are CoDA groups around the world, as well as Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous.<\/p>\n\n
In addiction there is hope. There are several success stories where addicts go into recovery. Being a chronic disease there is no cure, but with the right tools, constant support and family work, it is possible to lead an absolutely normal life, with healthy relationships and a full life.<\/p>\n\n
If you have a family member with addiction problems, take the first step to receive guidance and support in the process, to begin to have a calmer life, with healthy relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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