Why Don’t Women Seek Treatment?
It is often hard to encourage women to seek treatment. If a woman has an addiction, she may feel a great deal of shame or guilt. She likely won’t tell anyone about her struggles. Perhaps she thinks she’s a terrible person because of her substance use disorder.
Don’t fall into this trap of thinking. You may be making bad decisions, but that doesn’t make you a bad person. It just means that you are suffering from addiction, a disease from which many others in the U.S. suffer. You need help, and we can give it to you if you’ll let us.
Another reason women do not seek treatment is due to societal pressures. Men usually do not seek treatment because society expects them to be strong and manly. Women often don’t seek treatment for a similar reason: Society relies on women to be the backbone of the family unit.
The woman is often the one who takes care of the children and makes sure that everything in the family runs smoothly. If she admits that she has a substance use problem, she risks everything. Her partner may not stand by her as she gets treatment.
If she is divorced or a single mother, she risks having her children taken away because people view her as an incompetent mother. This fear keeps her paralyzed in addiction.
It is crucial to your health and the health of your family that you do not stay in the shadows of addiction. Treatment can be risky. You may make some mistakes, but that is true with every aspect of life. However, if you can succeed, you will find yourself in a brand new world. You can start over, free of the addiction and pain and all that it has cost you. That hope for the future can be the difference between someone who stays addicted to drugs or alcohol, or someone who breaks free of her chains.
What Makes Women’s Rehab Programs Stand Out?

When researching different treatment options, women’s only rehab is not always an option. However, at Phoenix Rising, we want you to be successful in your recovery. We want you to be comfortable.
We also want you to learn as much as you can so that your treatment can be successful. By creating a program where your peers are all women, we hope to make your recovery as meaningful and instructive as possible.
A women-only rehab program is what it sounds like: a recovery program that only has women enrolled. Depending on the program you enter, you may also only have women as your counselors and instructors. Women have decidedly different struggles than men do, especially when they are in a rehab program.
Men and women’s body makeups are inherently distinct, and as such, their addiction recovery processes are also unique. Consequently, we have built a program devoted to helping you work through the particular aspects that are exclusive to a woman in recovery.