A-Z of Addiction Recovery: Y is for Yeild

Yeilding

The definition of yeilding is: to produce a crop, result, profit, to surrender, to concede, to give way...

Yeilding to professional care services may be scary for some people because its the unknown and its new. Even when unhappy, sometimes it feels easier to just stay the same, not change, and stay familiar with the way things are, or hoping it will get better by itself. We have learned that the disease of alcoholism and drug addiction is a progressive illness that gets worse with time, never better. That is why treatment is so important. This disease, left untreated, is fatal.

Just look at the headlines - alcohol-related accidents, drug overdoses, murders, suicides, chirrosis of the liver, cancers of all kinds can be linked to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.
In light of these statistics, it would seem LESS risky to start a treatment program than to continue on "as is" when that condition is less than satisfactory. Yeilding to health care professionals allows the healing process to begin. Yeilding may not be so bad after all.