Nadat Mandy-Leigh van Aswegen vir jare haar eie pad gestap het met verslawing, help sy nou ander om hul pad na herstel te vind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mandy-Leigh, wat reeds vir 16 jaar nie meer aan dwelms verslaaf is nie, maak dit van die staanspoor af duidelik dat sy \u2019n recovering addict<\/i> is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is nou al 16 jaar in recovery<\/i> en ek het op die ouderdom van 14 vir die eerste keer met dwelms begin eksperimenteer. Ek het op die ouderdom van 10 my ma se geld gesteel en daar het die gedragsprobleme al begin wys. Voor ek 19 was, is ek deur baie trauma. Ek was in Thailand se tsunami en toe ek 19 was, is ek verkrag deur \u2019n wildvreemde man. N\u00e1 die verkragting het my verslawing verskriklik gesneeubal. Van daar af het ek verskriklik begin dwelms gebruik.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy vertel dat sy twee jaar daarna ook drie motors afgeskryf het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Mandy-Leigh was sy verslaaf aan koka\u00efen en hoewel sy gewerk het as \u2019n bemarkingsassistent, het sy die meeste van haar geld aan dwelms bestee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het my ouers rot en kaal besteel. Verslawing is \u2019n wilde ding en ek dink baie mense onderskat dit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVandat ek in rehabilitasie was, het my ma-hulle ook \u2019n program gevolg en weekliks groepe bygewoon, want dit is nie net die persoon (verslaafde) wat \u2019n pad moet stap nie, dit is die mense om hulle wat ook die pad moet stap. Hulle s\u00ea verslawing is \u2019n familiesiekte. Jy het nou gehoor, ek het drie karre afgeskryf, so nou wonder jy seker, waar het al die karre vandaan gekom? My pa het dit vir my gekoop. So daar was geen gevolge vir my aksies nie.\u201d Hulle (haar ouers) moes ook gerehabiliteer word in \u2019n sekere manier om te kon sien dat hoewel hulle dalk gedink het hulle is deel van die oplossing, hulle ook deel van die probleem was . . . nie di\u00e9 probleem nie. Mense wat saam met verslaafdes stap moet weet daar is drie C\u2019s. I didn\u2019t Cause it, I can\u2019t Control it, and I can\u2019t Cure it<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mandy-Leigh meen egter dat ouers dikwels die situasie probeer beheer, maar hoe meer hulle probeer om dit te beheer, hoe meer glip dit deur hul vingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Toe ek 21 was, het my pa ges\u00ea hy gaan die polisie bel \u00f3f ek gaan rehabilitasiesentrum toe. Ek het toe rehabilitasiesentrum toe gegaan. Ek dink ek was vir agt maande in my eie program en dit was die begin van die rehabilitasie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy vertel selfs die aand toe haar ouers haar tot by die lughawe geneem het, wou sy nie saam met hulle ry nie, omdat sy nie wou gaan nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het dwelms by my gehad op die vliegtuig. So verslawing het geen brieke nie. Dit het nie respek vir mense nie, dit is so selfgesentreerd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy eerste week daar was baie interessant. Eerstens het ek gedink dit is \u2019n sosiale klub, so ek het lekker gesosialiseer en gekuier. Dit het my seker vier maande gevat om die 12-stap-program te doen en om agter te kom ek het eintlik \u2019n helse probleem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het daar gesit en ges\u00ea \u2018ken julle my familie, ek is eintlik hier om weg te kom van hulle af\u2019, min wetend dat \u00e9k die probleem is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie realiteit vat nogal \u2019n ruk om in te sink vir \u2019n persoon wat \u2019n verslaafde is om regtig tot hul sinne te kom en te s\u00ea \u2018eintlik is my lewe nie so great<\/i> nie, eintlik het ek klomp goed om aan te werk\u2019. En dit is \u2019n leeftyd se werk wat \u2019n mens het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk was verslaaf aan koka\u00efen, maar rook was vir my moeiliker om op te gee as koka\u00efen, omdat dit so aanvaarbaar is om te rook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk dink drank is ook een van die moeilikste dinge vir mense om op te gee omdat dit so vrylik beskikbaar is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBaie mense s\u00ea gaan vir 21 dae (rehabilitasie), maar as jy vir sewe jaar in aktiewe verslawing was soos ek, gaan jy nie in 21 dae regmaak wat in sewe jaar verkeerd geloop het nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By die rehabilitasiesentrum het Mandy-Leigh as huismoeder begin werk en sy meen dit is waar haar passie begin het en sy besluit het om haar ervaringe te gebruik en iets positiefs daarvan te maak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEn toe het ek begin swot<\/i>. Ek het eintlik in my verslawing n\u00e1 skool sielkunde begin studeer en dit nooit voltooi nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNadat ek my eie pad gestap het met verslawing en recovery<\/i> het ek besluit ek moet sielkunde gaan studeer.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omdat sy gewerk het terwyl sy studeer het, het sy haar studies oor 10 jaar voltooi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nadat sy haar program by die rehabilitasiesentrum voltooi het, het Mandy-Leigh by \u2019n ondersteuningsgroep wat uit die sentrum gebore is, aangesluit en het sy elke week die ondersteuningsgroep bygewoon. Vandag is sy steeds \u2019n fasiliteerder by di\u00e9 groep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy vertel dat sy self ook in berading is en dat sy nog die heeltyd \u2019n pad van berading stap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVeral as \u2019n professionele persoon moet ek in my eie berading wees, want ek kan nie n\u00ed\u00e9 na myself kyk en dan my kli\u00ebnte wil help nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJy kom nie uit \u2019n rehabilitasie\u00adsentrum as \u2019n recovered addict<\/i> nie, jy is \u2019n recovering addict<\/i>. So jy moet kan praat wanneer jy gedagtes het om [dwelms] te gebruik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJy moet praat oor wat daardie gedagtes aanwakker en wat jy daaraan doen.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Augustus vanjaar is Mandy-Leigh se aanlynpraktyk twee jaar oud. Sy bied groepondersteuningsessies sowel as individuele sessie via Zoom aan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het nie net my kwalifikasie nie, maar ek het lewenservaring want ek het die pad gestap. Ek sien goed raak in mense wat ek in myself al raakgesien het en al het ek \u2019n baie moeilike pad gestap, kan ek my ervaring vandag ten goede gebruik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk kan \u2019n ruimte skep vir mense en s\u00ea ek oordeel jou nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy s\u00ea as sy nou terugkyk en met die inligting wat sy oor die afgelope 16 jaar ingewin en geleer het, het sy eintlik \u2019n gedragsprobleem gehad en het dwelms die simptoom daarvan geword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mandy-Leigh s\u00ea dat dit juis vir haar as deel van haar werk as berader belangrik is dat mense nie net oor die simptome van verslawing praat nie, maar oor wat die oorsaak daarvan is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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