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TikToker Chris Olsen, who is 5 years sober from alcohol, shared a look what helium called the “hard” and “mean” rehab that held him accountable and changed his life.
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For 5 years, the TikToker has been sober from alcohol. But his acquisition getting to that milestone was acold from easy.
"Yes I went to rehab for an full twelvemonth successful 2017," Chris said in a Dec. 27 TikTok video. "This was a hard rehab. This was a mean rehab. This wasn't like a, 'We're going to emotion you until you emotion yourself' rehab. This was a, 'You f--ked up everything and it's your occupation to hole it now' rehab."
Case successful point? "If you threatened to permission astatine immoderate constituent you were forced to transportation astir your packed bags with you everyplace you went for astatine slightest 2 weeks," helium explained. "And if you didn't cleanable your flat good enough, similar if your floorboards weren't spotless, you were locked retired of your flat for the remainder of the day. It doesn't substance if your nutrient is successful there. You person to fig retired determination other to get food. Not that we had immoderate money. You conscionable had to, like, beg different radical who weren't locked retired of their apartments to springiness you food."
And erstwhile it came to sharing with other patients Chris said everyone had to beryllium honest.
"Your archetypal workout erstwhile you get astatine that rehab is to archer the radical you're successful the 10 astir shameful secrets that you have," the 25-year-old continued. "And if you weren't sobbing connected the level by no. 10 you had to bash the workout again until you were due to the fact that you weren't taking the workout earnestly enough."
Indeed, arsenic helium said, the installation took matters seriously. "One clip idiosyncratic smuggled a telephone successful and texted idiosyncratic connected the extracurricular that they were going to leave," Chris recalled, "and the adjacent time we walked into radical and her texts were printed and enactment up each astir the walls. So she had to look astatine what she had done for the next, like, 2 weeks."
It was for his benefit, though. "It was each astir accountability," helium shared, "and possibly unsurprisingly had, like, the highest sobriety occurrence complaint successful the country. One of, I don't cognize if that's real. That's conscionable what we heard."
This isn't the archetypal clip the TikToker has elaborate his sobriety travel arsenic he celebrated 5 years sober successful September.
In a video, acceptable to AJR's opus "World's Smallest Violin," Chris shared a database of idiosyncratic and nonrecreational accomplishments, including graduating assemblage with honors, getting certified arsenic a idiosyncratic trainer and gathering a pursuing of 9.4 cardinal connected TikTok.
"None of this would person happened if I didn't person an involution 5 years agone today," helium captioned the TikTok. "So if you're looking for a motion to marque a alteration if I could bash it, truthful tin you!!! I emotion you."
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