Why go to rehab?
Do you even have the guts to ask why?
Well, you got fired because of your constant tardiness delivering reports to your boss. You used to show up with whiskey breath at business meetings and now that you are unemployed, you go to the supermarket half-drunk to hunt for discounts in alcohol.
Why wouldn´t you go to rehab?
That is the right question.
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If you make it to rehab, you will have an opportunity to make things right.
We are in the middle of a pandemic, for God´s sake, if it is not now, then when.
True, you will be supervised because you need inpatient detox. You must stay away from drugs and alcohol.
They will medicate you so that you cope more easily with the withdrawal symptoms.
Go to rehab, or else your ex-husband will come and get your kids out of your house. If he only knew how sluggish and neglected you have become, he would have won the custody over them already.
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