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Rada

 

In 1994 my son died from an overdose, he was 25 years old-student. Then the world ended for me. I didn’t want to live.

I don’t know how much time I was so clung to the death, while one day I realized that I have younger son, who needed me, my love and care. I clung to the life.

Few years ago I faced the problem again. My younger son that considered his brother for an idol, started to take drugs, and even more he was addicted. I collapsed! Soon I realized that I have no time to wait, we were facing a battle between the life and the death.

We passed through all the stages of psychotherapy, home treatment, isolation, hospitals, and medicines. It was a long time of flashes and blank despairs .My helplessness and desperation made me turn to God. I tried everything else. I felt that first of all I had to ask for forgiveness for my voluntary and involuntary sins. I repented so much and I prayed for the salvation of my son. I said “God, I don’t know what else can I do, I give my son into Your hands. You know how to help him, show him the way out”. The miracle happened. My son started his treatment in one Christian commune and he was successfully restored. Now he is re-socialized and his enjoying his life without drugs. When I passed all those trials, I started to think how to help to people with this problem. I wasn’t working in the social area and I had no experience. I trained in courses for social work. Later on I started to work on a project financed by the European Union, in a center for addicted people. That experience and my bitter life experience are my strong side, that I have for my work in association “ Future&Hope”.