Why Enabling?
A primary enabler is someone whose well-established pattern of enabling permits the alcoholic or addict to continue drinking or drug use.
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Posted by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 9, 2011 | Families | 0 |
A primary enabler is someone whose well-established pattern of enabling permits the alcoholic or addict to continue drinking or drug use.
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Even if such arguments have stymied you for decades, it’s quite possible, with a little coaching, to deal with them effectively in future.
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My outpatients get discouraged very easily. They may actually be doing pretty well for somebody new to recovery, but they don’t seem to realize it.
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So the professional’s real value to an intervention is as a guide. One who can offer something the family really does need: a degree of informed objectivity.
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Use examples. It’s hard for someone with alcoholism to grasp the idea that he or she can’t go back to drinking at some future point – after a year of abstinence, for instance. But the old saw that a pickle can’t go back to being a cucumber – that people seem to understand.
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