An Extraordinary Change In My Life

My name is Gina and this is the story of how I met God and was saved from drug addiction. I was abusing prescription drugs and caught up on a destructive path, I was completely lost and felt so alone. Drugs were my only escape and I did whatever I could to be able to use, including lying to my family, friends and myself. Reality was lost to me and I went down this path for more than four years before I realized how bad things really were.

My name is Gina and this is the story of how I met God and was saved from drug addiction. I was abusing prescription drugs and caught up on a destructive path, I was completely lost and felt so alone. Drugs were my only escape and I did whatever I could to be able to use, including lying to my family, friends and myself. Reality was lost to me and I went down this path for more than four years before I realized how bad things really were.

During the height of my destructiveness, I never once cared about who I was hurting or what I was doing. I avoided life in general because I was unable to cope with the pressures and stress; I lost out on many life experiences because of my addiction. I missed out on so much and so many things; I didn't even know why I was alive or what my purpose was. I am not telling you this to make you feel sorry for me, but rather to try and help you from going down the same path I took, the one that leads to nowhere.

I was prone to thinking suicide might be the answer to my problems; this is what I remember the most. I grew up in a Christian household, but did not regularly attend church, I only believed in God because my parents preached it to me from a young age. My downward spiral into drugs and constant denial made me able to justify that God didn't really exist, at least in my world. I rationalized that IF he truly existed how come he was allowing life to treat me this way, why wasn't he doing anything to help me?

One night at a party, a casual acquaintance introduced me to heroin and from the first hit I became dangerously hooked. This added to my problem with abusing prescription drugs, and made my situation even more hopeless. I lost my job and home, my family turned their back on me and I soon found myself alone as I experimented more and more with other drugs. My life was in turmoil and I was powerless to stop it, there was nothing I could do, that is until I found your Christian drug rehab Transformations Treatment Center.

I never wanted to admit how bad the problem was, I was scared and terrified of what was happening to me. I never once thought about a drug treatment center, I only knew I needed help and soon or I was going to die. My addiction and drug abuse had grown so out of control, I was not living only waiting for death to claim me. My friends kept begging me to seek a Christian drug rehab center before it was too late, but I ignored their pleas and kept using.

Along my mission to death and self-destruction, I decided to try and make good on my suicide threat. One night I was home all alone and I decided to end my misery and suffering. I sat down at the kitchen table with my pill bottles lined up in a procession in front of me and began writing my "goodbye" letters. In particular I felt some overwhelming need to write a letter to "God," asking him why he abandoned me and didn't love me, I closed the letter with "God if you are real, please help me!" I then proceeded to ingest all of the pills in front of me, Xanax, Darvocet, Ritalin, Dilaudid and several others. I climbed upstairs into bed and waited for the Angel of Death to take me away. I should have been dead, but some time later I woke up sick to my stomach, expelling a great quantity of the pills from my body. I wasn't mean to die that night, but what happened next is extraordinary.

I woke up the next morning in a haze, but what I noticed was I felt differently. Even though I had felt I had no way out but death, that morning something changed inside me. I felt the hand of God touch my life and that he had heard my pleas and answered me. It was right then and there I knew for some reason he had decided to give me a second chance at life, and I didn't intend on squandering one second. I was going to do whatever I had to do to find a Christian drug rehab center and beat my addiction once and for all.

With the help of a loving friend, I was able to find Transormations Treatment Center to help me with my addiction. The love, compassion and support I found through their Christian drug rehab clinic was something I had never experienced before. I found that through Biblical teachings, church sessions and pray groups, I was able to fight back and be strong. I grew spiritually and emotionally and with their help, I was able to find my way back from the brink of destruction and death. Thank you Transformations Treatment Center, you gave me my life back again and made me see all the reasons I have to life for, I can never tell you how much you helped me. Without you, I know I wouldn't be here today!

- Gina B

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