Category: The Relapse Condition
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How to Escape Constant Cravings In Recovery
Addiction involves craving and obsession, but chronic relapsers experience a different, dangerous obsession leading to memory lapses and delusional thinking. Traditional methods focusing on sobriety often fail. Instead, taking practical, proactive measures to limit relapse opportunities and cultivating a present, selfless mindset can effectively tackle cravings and obsessions, promoting personal growth.
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Still Living a Double Life in Addiction? Read This
Why secrets and lies keep you stuck in relapse. My first sponsor in recovery knew I was in serious trouble. A cocaine and sex and love addict who could barely stay clean a week, blowing tens of thousands each time I relapsed — the writing was on the wall for me. ‘Just come clean with everyone and surrender,’…
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The Deadly Addiction Trap That Gets Addicts Every Time
Addiction is like a slippery slope that starts gently but eventually descends into a vertical drop that ends in a bottomless dark pit. However, there’s something sinister about this slippery slope. It’s also strangely sticky; you can’t get off it once you’re on it.
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Why Addiction Can’t Be Solved In a Three-Dimensional World
Scientists have spent decades trying to prove a visual link for addiction in the brains of hopeless addicts, but to date, no neural footprint has ever been found.
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Relapse Prevention Strategies Simply Do Not Work For Chronic Relapsers
The colossal delusion of relapse prevention techniques.
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If You Constantly Chronically Relapse, You Are Indeed Truly Powerless
It Isn’t You That’s Deciding To Relapse. Question: which one of these addicts is truly powerless? A) Somebody that goes to any lengths to stay sober and clean yet still finds themselves relapsing? B) Somebody that goes to any lengths to use and act out in their addiction despite all the awful, painful consequences? A or…
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Can’t Stop Relapsing? The Real Reason for Repeated Relapse (And It’s Hiding in Plain Sight)
What really ails the chronic relapser.
Darren James 