Residential Rehab
“My recovery started with going through Ridgewood, getting a counselor, and getting on the list for rehab. After about two months of being in recovery, I found out about Sophia.”
“When I tried to quit, I was shaking, I felt like I was going to have a heart attack all the time. I put myself on the waitlist for a place called Beaver House in Montreal and I took a sick leave from work. In that time, just being on a waitlist and being prone to depression I felt like I’d thrown my life away. I took all the Ativan I had with wine one night. I don’t even know what my intention was, I was so out of it, I just remember waking up in an ambulance. Then I was in a detox ward, and they said, if you stay here for a week and detox we’ll fast-track you to rehab. So that’s when I ended up in Beaver House for 4 weeks.”
“It was a really weird time. Government rehab, I’m thankful for it, but a lot of the people who got there were trying to lessen their sentence because they were going to prison. There were seven beds for women, 13 for men. That was weird to me. We were all fresh off whatever we were on. It was intimidating. There was only one day where they got the women to separate and do their own group away from the men, which was all our favorite day. We could talk to each other without worrying about what any of the men would think.”