Freddogg Off The Chain

Rehab is really not a celebratory place and hence celebrities in a rehabilitation center are a ludicrous concept and an insult to anyone trying to gain a measure of control over a life that is self destructive and out of control with potential fatal consequences. Public people from college basketball coaches to millionaire spoiled obnoxious celebrities are using rehab as an excuse and hiding place and popularizing and cheapening a therapy that may be the last chance for a person to reclaim a life. I know several people who failed at rehab and ended up dead.
I have a joke when people asked me “Hey are you behaving yourself?’ and I answer,”I have to all my friends are in recovery.”
That is a joke because it is more or less true. My personality is not addictive except for refrigerated chocolate doughnuts and an attraction to real foods with sugar and fat and the rest of that tasty stuff.
I would like to do some group therapy work with young addicts but I recently applied for a position and even with a Masters Degree and 35 years working with adolescents I was disqualified because I had never been an addict and had to face down the demons from within. All I could say was,”Sorry” but trust me I know the behavior patterns.
Do you think it takes one to change one? In that case should real pedophiles be running group therapy classes? How about anger management which has become a societal joke but I know a guy who attacked his wife with a garden rake and a good thing is was one of those vinyl leaf jobs which she snagged and poked his eyeball with the handle.

Freddogg