Counselling for Friends & Family of People Experiencing Addiction
Seeing someone you love and care about experience addiction can feel confusing, frustrating, scary and heartbreaking.
Do you find yourself:
- Spending significant time and energy worrying.
- Giving excess financial support sometime beyond your means.
- Monitoring someone’s substance use or addictive behaviour.
- Generally trying to fix, change, or control.
- Saying “This is the last time”….more than one time.
- Feeling lied to.
- Calling in sick or lying for someone else.
- Making excuses.
- Having your boundaries crossed.
- Feeling taken advantage of.
For parents, partners and friends of individuals experiencing addiction, it might feel like you’re in a never-ending hurtful cycle.
Addiction affects more than the person experiencing it. Your healing is important too.