Rehab is typically anywhere from 30 to 90 days, and the real work begins when you're back at home and work, with all of the stressors, and learning how to avoid the lifelong self-destructive behaviors that have been getting you through the day for years.
Imagine an alcoholic requesting "a short leave of absence so that he can get evaluated and map out a course of treatment to make yourself well". Nothing about this is going to be "short".
Rehab's success rate is low to begin with (3 percent). Forced rehab, which this seems to be, doesn't work at all.
What seems to drive Weiner to compulsive destructive behavior (narcissistic personality disorder) is very difficult to treat in psychotherapy. The very nature of the disorder (narcissistic personality disorder) doesn't lend itself to treatment.
Weiner's looking more and more like Sandra Bullock's husband, Jesse James, and his manipulative attempt to get past media attention and get her back by going into rehab (he lasted one week). And Congress is looking more and more like the corrupt and ineffectual (for the People) know-nothings they've always been, trying to kick the can down the road until it blows up and takes a whole lot of innocents.
I'm afraid this is a stall, a punt, to try to save his job, and not for the good of his constituents or the issues he champions.
If Weiner were sincere, he'd quit Congress, no strings (it's next to impossible to deal with this kind of problem working in a job like that), and then see where he is.
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