My name is Nathaniel [pseudonym] and I want to tell you a little about my story, where I came from and where I am going. I was born in France in 1985 in Marseille. My parents are good people standing, my father is a doctor and my mother a talented director booming business. We came to Israel in 1995 when I was a boy of 10 years. I was not easy to adapt to their new life in Israel despite the language I realized very quickly what I had been difficult children were playing games and would refer to me as “special and different”. They were not mean to me but I felt they did not like me for who I really am. Just because I’m a new immigrant from France. I missed my friends in France. My parents made sure to ask how I was doing and was very busy, two years after my father left home and my parents finally divorced in 2000. Until the millennium when I was 15, I was earning very badly at least once a week. I grew up in a suburb of Tel Aviv, where most people do not lack material things, I was walking around especially with teenagers who drink and smoke cigarettes and hashish and weed.
I also started smoking pot and grass. Very quickly I became addicted, at the age of 16 was a “must” smoke every day to feel good. I was seized Aunt “hard, stealing money from the case of my mother, or my father or requesting money from friends to buy more drugs. It went on like that, I was getting deteriorated in almost every field, girl I love her very much left me at the age of 19 because I was “junkie” – so she said to me at least. Very difficult to get depressed, I left the army soon after one year of service and started using drugs kiosks ( “Celebration”) and would also take other hard drugs that I will take on their behalf. Very quickly I got a situation where I’m in withdrawal a day, and kept going back and forth, back and forth, and back and forth again out of the house dealer and so on. The money always ends too quickly, I did not have the forces to hold a job in a serious way, my mental health was already out of hand.
At 22, I asked for help for the first time. I went to a private rehabilitation center Sunday, without success, I went back to use again and again and moved a lot of attempts. At the age of 24 at the end I managed to get back on clean holds to this day. I clean for over a year and a half and is functioning very well, studying, working, renting an apartment, and maintain good and close contact with friends and family. I could not do it without the help of kindhearted people, instructors, counselors and therapists understand, just like people Retorno. I came from a dark, despair was to spare, I made an important decision, great, I decided to ask for help. Today I’m in a good direction in my life, just good …
