Recovery centre to host family meetings
Viewpoint Recovery Centre is stepping up the treatment of addiction by not only dealing with the individual and their addiction, but also looking at the destruction the addict has caused on their families.
Damaged family members that lack knowledge, education and understanding react in one of three ways towards the addict; they either abandon the addict to protect themselves, or they smother the addict to protect them from themselves, or they enable the addict out of fear.
Nothing can make an addict use or relapse, but these uneducated actions could push the addict over the edge.
It is important for family members to educate themselves on addiction to be able to assist the addict in their recovery and importantly for the family member to also protect themselves.
The solution is called boundaries. Since the disease of addiction is a behavioural disease, addicts, even if they are in recovery, struggle to identify other people’s needs and regulations, as well as their own.
Boundaries describe the rules and those limits in relationships regarding behaviour.
In relationships it differentiates between what is “okay” and “not okay”.
Viewpoint Recovery Centre invites all affected family members to its monthly family educational group, starting on March 27, where the topic of discussion for this month being boundaries.
Viewpoint facilitates this family educational group every last Thursday of the month, and the goal is to introduce a new topic every month.
These groups are open for discussion and attendees are welcome to request any subject matter that they are battling with, for the next group.
These groups are free of charge and all are welcome.
The centre is located at 11 Palm Avenue, Plantation.
Meeting s will take place from 6.30pm to 8pm.
