Choosing to go through treatment and recovery for mental distress or addiction is no easy decision to make. You might hesitate to accept help from others because you believe you can heal on your own. You might not yet see the severity of your distress or understand that treatment is a valuable resource for long-term recovery.
Another common reason why people do not jump to the idea of treatment is the general lack of trust they experience in life. When mental illness or addiction takes over your life, you likely experience a loss of self-trust and self-control, which can make it difficult to be open to trusting moving forward.
Many people might have doubts about whether the treatment facility they receive treatment from truly wants the best for their recovery. If you are the kind of person that has always struggled with letting others help you, it is understandable that you may have doubts about your treatment team. Whatever your reasons, know that you can put trust in your treatment team to provide the best recovery resources and guidance for your long-term healing.
Your Treatment Team Is Educated
The individuals that comprise the staff and treatment teams at treatment facilities are mental health and medical professionals. They have gone through several years of school, training, and licensures to reach the title of doctor, therapist, psychiatrist, or counselor. It would be appropriate to assume that most of the people employed at these treatment facilities are truly passionate about their jobs because wouldn’t have jumped through all the hoops necessary to become the reliable professionals they are if they didn’t love and find value in this profession.
With that being said, medical and mental health professionals are taught to make sound decisions for their clients, always with the client’s health as the highest priority. Professionals will make suggestions and decisions based on their prior experience along with their expertise. Since there are so many avenues for treatment and recovery, trust that your treatment team is for you and your recovery, not against you or your past.
Most facilities provide collaborative care, which means several health professionals work together to provide the best level of care for a client. Collaborative care teams may include therapists, doctors, psychiatrists, dietitians, and even behavioral health care managers. These teams are specifically curated to create the most efficient care plans to help clients achieve and sustain long-term recovery.
Your Treatment Team Understands
Treatment and recovery centers are staffed with professionals that meet you exactly where you are. Learning to meet clients where they are comes from years of professional experience, but it can also come through personal experience.
Most of the time, many staff members at a treatment center have been in your shoes at one time or another. Some people become passionate about providing mental health assistance to others because they enjoy it, while others become passionate about it because they once needed the assistance themselves. No matter the type of mental illness or severity of addiction, you can rest assured your treatment facility has members of staff that experienced their hesitations for treatment and recovery as they battled the harsh effects of mental illness or addiction themselves.
Trust that your treatment team believes you deserve a life free from the controls of addiction or other mental distress. Trust that your treatment team has walked in your shoes, making it easier to believe that they truly want the best for you and your recovery.
When You Are Having Doubts About Your Treatment Team
It is unrealistic to believe that you will be immediately open to all of the ideas or recommendations that your treatment team makes for you during treatment. It may be helpful to understand that having doubts about treatment is normal, even expected. These doubts, though, will not be very helpful in the grand scheme of things.
In the moments you have doubts, ask your treatment team to explain their process for the decisions they make for your treatment and recovery. If you explain your process for having doubts, your treatment professional will understand your hesitations and learn to add in as much detail about their decision-making process as possible moving forward so that you can be comfortable with them and their expert recommendations.
Building trust can be challenging, but with treatment and recovery, trust is a key component to establishing long-term healing. It is essential to build trust with your treatment team while you learn to accept the help they are willing and able to provide to you. Remember that your recovery and your health are their highest priority.
If you or your loved one is considering treatment for mental illness or substance abuse, understand that the staff at treatment facilities are passionate about helping you achieve long-term recovery. Treatment teams are comprised of mental health and medical professionals that have gone through years of schooling and experience to reach where they are at. You can believe that your treatment team is educated and that it understands what you are going through. When you have doubts or concerns, voice them to your team. The staff at Pacific Sands Recovery Center is devoted to providing the most effective treatment for your long-term recovery. We believe that every client should be treated without judgment, but with compassion for the distress, they are experiencing in life. We understand what you are going through because we have been there too. For more information about our treatment facility or staff, call us today at (949) 426-7962.
