A&E Intervention

Hi hi!

Last night when I should have been snoozing I got caught up in an episode of A&E's "Intervention"  - Season 11, eps #141 - "Eddie". It was a pretty good episode, I liked when at the end he thanked his brother for saving his life. hopefully he's still doing ok, he seems like a smart cookie. That show is pretty sad overall; I spend all day knee deep in other people's problems, you'd think I'd find something less depressing on TV. It goes to show how complicated we are as people, and how we can be affected by things in our childhood so deeply. It's always something it seems.

Anyway. I wonder now that the show is in season 11 how people keep getting manipulated into thinking they are in a run of the mill documentary about addiction, and how they always think they're going to their last interview but really SUPRISE it's your family and the intervention. I'm not in to anything, but if I were, and someone came up to me and said "Hey want to be in a documentary?" my immedaite response would be "Is this for A&E?". I guess not everyone watches television.

I always like hearing how people speak about themselves and their addiction after time in therapry. People become pretty insightful, and I think that's a good thing. I know there's lots of information about interventions being actually helpful or not. One counselor yesterday said something along the lines of that if you continue to accept failure you will continue to fail. How messed up must the human brain be sometimes to not just change its mind, how complicated are we that we can't just sometimes do things different. That can be for addictions to anything in your life you're unhappy with. My vice is diet and exercise. We know the difference, we know what needs to be done differently, but change nothing. I know it's not always as easy as that, but I wish it were. I'm sure all the people on 'Intervetion"'wish things were as easily said than done too.

-AMB