Celebrity Drug Rehab Profile: Brigitte Nielson
Brigitte Nielson hit her peak in the 1980s as an international supermodel and actress, famously marrying Sylvester Stallone and infamously recording a pop album or two. In this century, she has found something of a comeback on reality TV shows that highlighted her drunken antics and now it’s those same drunken antics that have her in the spotlight on VH1’s Celebrity Drug Rehab, a reality show that follows the recovery of celebrities with drug problems.
Brigitte is a mother to four sons and it is her role as mother that seems to come up quite a bit during groups on the show. Not only does she share revelations about how her addictive behavior has affected her relationship with her children, but she also somehow gets cast in the role of mother for others in the group who are expressing difficulty in dealing with their emotional relationship to their own mothers. Dr. Pinsky instructs those who are voicing opinions or feelings about their mothers (namely Mary Carey and Jessica Sierra) to direct those comments to Brigitte as if she were their mother. It’s a legitimate therapeutic tactic and Brigitte took it in stride admirably.
When you take part in a Suboxone detox, you are taking on a treatment for your opiate drug addiction on an outpatient basis without the embedded benefits of support groups like the ones seen on the show. If you live at home with a parent or are a parent, you may see this as a gift: instead of talking to strangers about your concerns, you can speak directly to the people you care about. You can take advantage of your close proximity to the ones you love and work through your problems actively during your detox and recovery so that when it is over, you can just take a deep breath and move forward with your life. If you need help working through emotional and spiritual issues related to recovery, just contact the same Meditox support team that helped you create your treatment plan and they can help you find local resources for the psychological and medical help that you require.
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