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Here are a few of the comments our clients have made about our service at Trust The Process Counselling over the last 6 months.
Alan: The programme has been transformational
Justin: The process does work. The main thing to that is that you live in separate accommodation within society. It makes you strong. If you're stuck in the middle of the field somewhere in treatment, you don't have the chance to get used to real life.
David: I have experienced a lot of different rehabs – some of them 12-step based, but with the courses only being 6-weeks' and costing just as much, if not more – “Clouds” being one of the finest supposedly, but again I went 3 times and found the process too easy and comfortable – yes, it was based on the 12-steps, but in the 6 weeks we left with only 3 steps in hand.
My experience is that I would complete the 6 weeks and still not have been confronted and pretty much was left to myself, even though we had group therapy for just 1 hour per day and also too much chill-out time. The consequences of this flippant treatment was I went out without the understanding of the steps and consequently used when I was let out. It was only a matter of time before I was in trouble. There was only one meeting we were allowed to and this was inappropriate because I believe that we need good habits and this with the 12-steps will give us some chance of surviving this disease when in the real world. TTP is the only centre I’ve been to that introduces you to the 12-steps and this is crucial to recovery. Also the process of doing what we do at TTP is brilliant. Here at TTP there is a structured guide to becoming real with ourselves, and when the experienced counsellors feel you are ready, they give you the steps to work on. Each step has a meaning and is given when the client is ready and willing to take it on board. This is a painful process of honesty and change and for me I need someone that could evolve me at the right time and then suggest I do some work on the steps - each step at the appropriate time – not before and not too late – just at the right time. Not only have the steps given me an understanding of what I need to work on to enable me to face up to my destructive behaviors and to change them, the whole process of TTP is one of hard work and good guidance and that I have had here. When you change sufficiently you start to be given responsibilities and this, for me, was a responsibility I needed, as I had lost the ability to behave or be responsible. It is a humbling experience to go from a 30-year addiction – from heroin, methadone and alcohol, backed up by completely irresponsible behaviors, which I had, even as a child. The world owed me a living and everyone else was going to pay for it, also my fear of everything and my denial that told me I was OK, when really I was almost dead. Out of 3 mental institutions and 11 rehabs I couldn’t “get it”. Why, you’re asking, didn’t he get it before? I didn’t have the process that TTP has provided and for that I am eternally grateful to this process as I have found myself and also changed myself . I have grown up and can now be a responsible member of society. This is the start of a miracle thanks to TTP. TTP has done for me what I could not do for myself and the whole process is nothing short of perfect. No frills, but just recovery and I would go as far as to say that, if my children (God forbid) ever needed treatment I would have no reservations about sending them to TTP. Where the care, trust and process is nothing short of a miracle. If I can be guided, pushed and cared for back to health, mentally, emotionally and physically then anyone can. The most import tool is the 12 steps, not 3 of the 12. I have learned to support myself for the first time in 43 years and also to help others, this is so far from the man that hated himself and everyone and could not think straight. I am so grateful to TTP. I, David, was a very selfish child with an ego and arrogance as large as a planet. I was incredibly scared angry and most of all dishonest with myself. When I was using I had the answer to everything and I believed it, in the end believing that I was going to die a drinker and a user, because I had tried so many times to find myself and get clean. I have a beautiful wife and two children; I stole, lied and let them down all the time because my addiction came first before everyone, even them. I now have my family back, but their trust will take time, but my wife has seen this disease at its worst and has put up with murder. When she saw me and spoke to me, her words were this; “I had a beautiful day and I am amazed that you are the man I knew 29 years ago, I am getting butterflies in my stomach and I’m shocked. You are a grown up, you listen to me, respect my opinion and I haven’t got the words for what has happened”. There is now a new hope for us. This is from a man that was nasty and very troubled. To a man that will help anyone, has compassion, love, patience, tolerance and the gifts of life. Great thanks to the only treatment centre that could help me as I could not do it alone.
Laura: It's good that you have one foot in the centre and one foot in real life here - it's been good discipline and my self-esteem has built a lot.
Steve: Where do I start? I haven't known a place like this. I can't put it into words really. I can only use the word gratitude.
Ahmed: The programme at Trust The Process is well balanced. The step work is the main element of it, but art, sport and other workshops are valuable too.
Jo: The friendliness and availability of the counsellors is great.
Charlotte: The treatment experience has been brilliant. It's the feeling of actually belonging somewhere - I've never had that before. There's not been a single day when I haven't wanted to come in.
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I discovered that I have an illness, no different to any other illness, except in my case there is a guaranteed cure. That cure – total abstinence from drugs and alcohol and to follow a guide to life. That guide … the Twelve Steps of Recovery. When I first came through the door and for about three weeks I didn’t really understand what the Twelve Steps were, but through the intensive group work I done with my fellow addicts and alcoholics (there’s no difference between the two) and the direction of my counsellor, whom I trust like I would my parents, I have got an understanding now.
Since my teens I have drunk alcohol like any other of my mates, I have dabbled in drugs since then also. I was a weekend party boy, always worked, have got a good career that is well-paid, but unlike my mates (who could go out and go home when they had told their partners they were going to be home) I couldn’t. I had to stay out ‘til there was no drink, drugs or money left. Once I started I couldn’t stop. Having a child when I was 22 didn’t stop me; going to jail at 23 didn’t stop me, hurting my Mum didn’t stop me. I could carry on, but the fact was that nothing would stop me binge-drinking and using drugs.
As I said I am 37 years old and crunch-time came on Christmas day 2008, when my partner caught me smoking heroin 20 minutes before Christmas dinner in my in-laws' toilet.
Maybe deep down I wanted to get caught so I would have to face up to the fact I have a problem. The next day my family knew and it was sometime over the next few days that a treatment centre was talked about (not to me but between my family). My Mum and sister came round to my house on the 2nd Jan 2009 and told me about TTP – I didn’t need much persuading. My Mum just burst in to tears when I agreed, as she didn’t think I would agree as I am the stubbornness person in the world and never ask for help.
I knew that I had to change – if I didn’t I would die a lonely man – sooner rather than later, younger rather than older.
I don’t know how to put in to words my gratitude for the TTP treatment centre. “Thanks” just doesn’t seem enough. By following these 12 simple steps to life, I will be the partner that she deserves, the father they need and the son my mum has only dreamt about, and the man I am now. I thank TTP and God for making this happen with all my heart and I will be eternally grateful as will all my family.