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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 543427" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Relapse thing totally hoovers. I too absolutely hate waiting for relapses, even though, or maybe because, my difficult child has went lightly with them. He has had only two (that I know) and they were extremely short, more like slips than real relapses. But I do know he is likely to relapse again and probably have at least few worse relapses during his life. And I just hate waiting for those. It is even difficult to be happy with his successes when you are afraid of relapses.</p><p></p><p>Only thing that helps me with it is that I try to think them part of the recovery and learning experiences. The treatment program difficult child is involved told us right away that several relapses are likely to happen, they are not end of the world but something to learn from and part of the successful recovery. You are supposed to learn from them. Idea is, that relapse is not ending a recovery and you are not starting from point zero afterwards but just jumping back to the wagon and after analyzing the relapse you are again wiser and farther along in your recovery.</p><p></p><p>But still it just blows so bad. I find some comfort from fact that I know many people who have struggled with substance abuse or addiction issues while young and still went and lived good life either free from those substance or with somehow finding some kind of balance with their problematic behaviours. It is not always ideal and doesn't often go with the ideas of full recovery and total abstention but is more of fluctuation between better and worse times, but still, it is a full life. Unfortunately it doesn't always go so and mortality with addiction is high so are possibilities to other bad outcomes, but still, most muddle through somehow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 543427, member: 14557"] Relapse thing totally hoovers. I too absolutely hate waiting for relapses, even though, or maybe because, my difficult child has went lightly with them. He has had only two (that I know) and they were extremely short, more like slips than real relapses. But I do know he is likely to relapse again and probably have at least few worse relapses during his life. And I just hate waiting for those. It is even difficult to be happy with his successes when you are afraid of relapses. Only thing that helps me with it is that I try to think them part of the recovery and learning experiences. The treatment program difficult child is involved told us right away that several relapses are likely to happen, they are not end of the world but something to learn from and part of the successful recovery. You are supposed to learn from them. Idea is, that relapse is not ending a recovery and you are not starting from point zero afterwards but just jumping back to the wagon and after analyzing the relapse you are again wiser and farther along in your recovery. But still it just blows so bad. I find some comfort from fact that I know many people who have struggled with substance abuse or addiction issues while young and still went and lived good life either free from those substance or with somehow finding some kind of balance with their problematic behaviours. It is not always ideal and doesn't often go with the ideas of full recovery and total abstention but is more of fluctuation between better and worse times, but still, it is a full life. Unfortunately it doesn't always go so and mortality with addiction is high so are possibilities to other bad outcomes, but still, most muddle through somehow. [/QUOTE]
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