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[Not Afraid]

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I'm not saying the ability to provide rehab is any less. I think that stars ability to pay attention to the rehab instead of the frills and luxuries might just be less though. If you cut out all the frills and fluff from it and have the most simple of rehab programs there would be nothing but rehab for them to pay attention to. It needs to be the absolute focus. Nothing to distract from it. No tennis, no sauna, none of that. You don't need that to rehab. I'm sure it's nice to have, but what you need is the support and help of real friends who care about your well being and want to see you get through and who will be there no matter how hard it gets because they genuinely care about you.

Actually, I see it a bit differently. The goal of any time spent in rehab is to learn how to live life in the "outside world". That includes doing all things sober and taking care of yourself. Exercise is a big part of taking care of yourself and ALL good rehab programs have some sort of exercise component.

The other thing to consider is how comfortable and trusting the rehab environment will be for a person. The more trusting the patient is, the more open he or she will be to learning. Also, if you are used to a certain lifestyle and you go to rehab and all you see around you is poor, inner-city people there is a cultural divide in existence that keeps makes it difficult to make friends and relate to others. (Not to mention how harmful and distracting it would be to the other patients to have a celebrity in their midst.) Rehab under ANY circumstances is not a vacation. ALL programs - from free to astronomical - are VERY regimented and involve a lot of hard work.

[Snowflake]

Mousepod #30 has been posted and it's a great interview with Michael Barrier, author of The Animated Man, the new bio on Walt Disney.

I've not read it yet, bu