By Cliff Richey
@Aacingdepression
As we all know, the United States are in the middle of a very bad drug crisis.
In my opinion, the Covid crisis made it worse. To be very isolated helps to produce drug and alcohol abuse. In my case, I had a five -month fight against Covid and it was in Covid Long Save and that was a two and a half year old fight. Both illnesses give you insomnia. I became addicted to a very popular sleep med. After trying to hit my addiction alone, after a year and a half it became clear that I couldn’t do it alone and needed professional help.
On March 12thTH2025 I checked in a detoxification and rehabilitation facility. It was in a large U -Bahn area of Texas. My sister Nancy and I saw on the Internet and I chose one that we believed that it was a good thing. On the website for this facility it says that I would have a doctor, a psychiatrist and a case manager. It was also advertised to have a world-famous cook and gourmet meal. In my case I wanted a single private room and I got one. I also wanted a climate system system with which I could control a thermostat in my room. I assumed that I would certainly have a complete bathroom with all necessities for the price I paid and the overall pictures and the description of this facility. I had no air conditioning that I could control and I didn’t have a bathroom … not even a sink.
The purpose of this article I write is to warn people not to believe that a rehab center is advertised on their website. One last thing I knew was that I would not use my phone in the first eight days. More on this in a minute.
In my opinion, fraud, fraud, appearance and incorrect presentation describes appropriate to which I actually went to. Note! I’ve never seen a doctor before. The only people I talked to were not even on property. What doctors should have been, were a medical assistant. And that was three different people who were completed by Telemeds from the foreign state. I have never seen a psychiatrist personally or from Telemed. I think I had a case manager, but in the eight days I was there, I never met the person. In my opinion, these are three big false representations.
Now let’s go back to the “world -famous cook” and the kitchen. The cook was a obese woman with tattoos (yes, I know that many of you have tattoos), but I personally don’t like her. She was not wearing a head equipment and steamed when cooking. The “kitchen” last night I was there, there were hot dogs! The kitchen was part of a hall that led to the snack cabinet. The customers and all of the staff were able to and went to this walking kitchen and stood a few meters from the stove and were able to have conversations. I think you have the idea. One last thing about the kitchen. One of the managers of the facility had a very large dog that also roamed the kitchen. He had a very nice dog and I am a dog lover, but you shouldn’t be in the kitchen.
The first PA I spoke to took from the cold turkey from sleep. Now I’m going off. Cold Türkiye is not a good idea because it is dangerous. I studied it and that’s just a fact. As it turned out, it turned out that it was a good thing for me. I’m clean for 25 days now. I am not entirely through the withdrawal symptoms, but I have the feeling that I am about to get there. The withdrawals are serious, but I am very determined and it is really one of the greatest games in my life.
I almost go through this saga, I’ll tell you the shocking final. After I got out of sleep, I had the feeling that they couldn’t do anything for me, except for sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). After eight days of the 10 -day program, I decided. I didn’t need your CBT because I wrote an entire book about it. You can find my book in Amazon with a licensed cocoral. The title of the book is “Your game book for beating depression” (which is for sale and download here: https://a.co/d/0or8szv I have another book that is my memoir entitled “Acing Depression: A Tennis Champions The most difficult match”. You will see so many aspects of CBT in real life.
So on the eight day I decided to go. I asked the manager to call my phone to call my trip, which was three and a half hours away. He said “No” around the way when I asked for my phone. He also assumed that because I had not completed the last two days of detoxification, I was not allowed to go with or without my phone. The Hotel California had come to life. Of course, the famous line in this song is “You can watch yourself at any time, but you can never go”. I told him that I would call the police regardless of their rules for my stay, and I told him that I could prove that she was a fraud. He was very relentless in relation to his position, but the simple fact was that I had no doctor, so the agreement was broken. With his boss at his side he said: “We will let you go”. I got my cell phone and went.
I am sure you are curious about what the fee was for this terrible experience. I paid $ 25,000 for a 10-day stay and as I said, I only remained eight. I just write this article to warn everyone, to better check a facility than I do. Finally, the Texas Department of Health and Human Services actively examines all of this.
Let us all try to change this national drug problem!
