Everyone should have the chance to live the best possible life. When you see a loved one that is suffering due to addiction, it may be your place to help get them on the path to addiction recovery. Many people have no idea where to go to get the help and therefore they don’t get the help they so desperately need.
It doesn’t matter whether someone has been willing to take the step on their own or not. Sometimes, it is you being there that will encourage them to take that step because they know they have the love and support they need to make some modifications within the way they are living their live.
Before you mention 12-step recovery, it is important to educate yourself on addiction. Attend a few meetings for support groups and even tap into some of the local resources. This will allow you to strengthen your own emotional well-being and know more about what to expect for your loved one as you look to plan an intervention.
Sometimes an intervention is the best way to show someone that they are in need of addiction recovery resources. However, you have to focus on the person. If you gather up a few of their closest friends and family members and out them as being an alcoholic or a drug user, they may shut down and you have lost them.
Everyone has an environment where they feel most comfortable, and it is your job to determine what that is for the friend or family member that needs help.
It may be helpful to use a professional interventionist so that the main thoughts get across and a person can see what the benefits of a 12-step recovery would be.
You have to make sure they know the damage of their addiction from YOUR point of view, so using “I” is important. Everyone who is a part of the intervention needs to take the same approach.
It’s not easy to see the person you know and love struggling. You want to show them that they have a way to make things better for themselves and that you love and support them with their decision and that you are at their side.
Intervention of some sort is going to be necessary, it is simply a matter of the personal approach that you take.