Tag: Relapse condtion
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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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A Highly Unusual Approach To The Addiction Problem
Why do we relapse? Why do we go back after all the promises, solemn oaths and daily hours of work to stay sober? It’s not that we can’t stop once we start (that’s old news; after all, that’s what qualifies us as addicts).
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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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How To Sponsor A Chronic Relapser
It’s not about hiring and firing sponsees. “We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” ~ Carl Jung. I had seven sponsors in total. Some were hard and militant in their approach, others gentle and loving. But my seventh sponsor was neither. He just said it like it was. …
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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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When I Finally Lost All Hope of Getting Clean That’s When My Recovery Started
What if you were the ‘real addict’ as mentioned in the book of Alcoholics Annonymous (the Big Book) and were, in fact, ‘truly powerless’ that there was nothing you or anybody could do about your relapsing? What would you do then? Would you still spend your time praying for another sober day? Writing daily gratitude…
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How One Crazy Suggestion Finally Helped Me Stop Relapsing
Read this if you feel lost in recovery
Darren James 