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Post-Cedu Drug Use

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Loli:
Programs like CEDU, which was not a drug rehab to begin with, cannot effectively stem drug use because the program centers around making you feel worthless. You are broken down and raw on one hand, but opposingly, deluded into this grandiose idea that the program SAVED your life and represents all that is good.  This causes internal dissonance.

I was never addicted to drugs at all. I used recreationally as a teen and actually quit months prior to CEDU easily. After CEDU, I did not resume, but that was a personal decision made prior to attendance. Haven't even seen anything since I was 16. I don't have, obviously, an addictive personality.

However, if people are prone to drug abuse, I do not see how a program dedicated to breaking you down does anything but encourage escapism and self destruction. When you leave the surreal environs of CEDU, you emerge in to a reality with a severely distorted sense of its importance and also a misplaced trust in the tools you were given.  You slowly realize either consciously or subconsciously (which is worse because you are still in denial) that nothing adds up, and you, your Stepford self, and your new cultic paradigm of emotional well being is NOT integrating into the outside world.

This forms a clusterfuck of internal chaos and denial that could only unleash your sleeping demons.

Anonymous:
honestly it is from coping with CEDU and my family that made me a pothead. we got a big dose of "if you need medication (drugs) you're weak" at CEDU. It's taken me years of ruining my lungs and other organs to start really taking a look at the existing depression. Before, during, and after.

It's been a great crutch and I'm scared as shit to give it up, but identifying which things to "blame" on me and which things to blame on how I felt when I left CEDU, and all the life choices I've made coping with being there and what I
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learned" there and all the things I still need to unlearn from there. They never addressed real issues, they sheltered parents responsibilities to their children by being an outsourced agency that harms the internal emotional working of growing young people. Adult drug use from places like CEDU is a "no" brainer.

P.s. Confirmation codes suck.

Anonymous:
Am I High or is it really hard to read the confirmation codes?

One of the reasons I just don't post anymore. Subject matter often needs anonymity.

Whooter:

--- Quote from: "secretary" ---I did 'em all after I left Cascade.
--- End quote ---
Its a personal choice regardless of if you went to a program or not.  Some people just grow up faster than others, get interested in a career and back off the drug use.  Others take longer and they experiment with harder stuff.  As you get older you just cant party all weekend and then be efficient at your job monday morning.

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