If you want to succeed during your stay at inpatient drug rehab centers, you need to be completely ready to face your problems. Anything less than 100 percent is going to be a barrier to your progress. You need to be completely honest with yourself, as well as the on-site counselors  at the inpatient drug rehab. Don’t let your denial of addiction be your downfall to recovery.

How Denial Prevents You From Getting Clean

Denial is a defense mechanism that your mind uses to protect your ego. It is the way your mind tries to justify your drug use so that you can continue to use drugs. It tries to block out all of the obvious, negative consequences of your addiction. Your mind tricks you into believing that what you are doing is okay – even if at a deeper level you understand that this is a lie.

Resistance puts you at a high risk of relapse because it means you are slipping back into denial. The more you turn your thoughts towards reality, the easier it is going to be for you to cope with life. People suffer emotionally when the things they believe to be true turn out to be false. It hurts. This is what denial is all about. Your mind is trying to protect itself from hurt the easiest way it knows how…it lies to you. These lies hold you back from reaching your potential and finding happiness.

How to Overcome Denial While in Treatment

We don’t really choose to fall into denial, but we do decide to stay in denial. The only way you can break free of your addiction at an inpatient rehab center is to commit to complete honesty – no matter what the cost. It won’t be possible for you to remain in denial when you commit to this type of openness. By entering one of our inpatient treatment centers you have already begun to demolish the wall of denial that has kept you trapped. This is a great start but you are going to have to continue to take action to discover the lies that your mind has been telling you. You are going to be able get honest and open up during group therapy, and by attending one-to-one therapy sessions.

Don’t Let Denial Follow You Out The Door

Even after you leave inpatient drug rehab there is still the risk that you could fall once again into denial. This sometimes occurs when you run into a challenge that you are not prepared to face. When you stop making progress in your new life, you are going to be at high risk of relapse or turning to new maladaptive behaviors. It is a real shame for people to build a new life with the help of drug rehabs only to lose it once again to denial. If you stop putting the work into your recovery, you may fall into behaviors like work addiction, exercise addiction, or sex addictions. These addiction substitutions are going to pull you into a new form of denial.

Live an Honest Life After You Complete Your Treatment

Inpatient drug rehab centers teach you how to live life on life’s terms. It is not going to be possible for you to get a free-ride in life, but you can become better at dealing with problems. This is what it means to be emotionally sober, and it is the secret to real and lasting happiness. By learning to live an honest life in recovery, you never again risk falling into addiction. You are on track for success – it all begins with drug rehab centers.