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I have begun to near the end of my stay at Back 2 Basics residential program. In some ways I really feel as though it has flown by because I remember five months ago just catching up with Brad and Spencer and meeting everyone in Transition. Though at the same time it almost feels like it has been a short lifetime between when everybody got back from a trip and were washing the van and talking to each other while I met them. Perhaps the reason things feel so different is the fact that everybody is different now. I have been able to change and grow myself so much in the brief time that I have been here. Of course I have to credit some of this to my great therapist Charlie and the program itself, but I truly feel that the most important part of process has been the friendships I have formed with certain staff and clients. It is so far from anything I have experienced in my life; the way I can interact and communicate with people of my choosing although I have been in many programs before this. All the treatment centers have had people in it with problems I often had trouble relating to and rehab that only brought me down. Though at Back 2 Basics things are different, I have been able to assimilate into a group of people quite a bit older than myself. Became a functioning person in a group that can be relied upon, then eventually I feel I became a leader of the very same group culture that I was afraid would not accept me. This for me has been one of the most revealing pieces to how the rest of my life could look. In which is a great piece of hope for me considering how nervous I am to embark on the rest of my life at the age of eighteen with my entire family on the other side of the country. I know it will be scary and will be hard at times, but I also know that I can absolutely count on each one of the people that I can count on now in my life. This thought is what helps me in anxious moments. Because everybody that currently supports me does it to the fullest and does not ever let me slip. The fact that I have it now means I will have it then too.