My husband didn’t believe he had an addiction. He believed he had a productivity strategy that had gotten slightly out of hand. Getting him to make the first call was the hardest part. What happened after that call was remarkable — the admissions team spoke to both of us, helped him feel understood rather than judged, and within days he was in a program that finally addressed both his Adderall dependency and the ADHD that had been sitting underneath it his entire adult life. The family counselling sessions helped me understand what he had actually been experiencing, which changed the way I was able to support him completely. We are both in a different place now. A better one.
