What are the advantages of outpatient care for addiction?
Outpatient services for behavioral addiction are preferable primarily because you’re living in the environment that you’re going to live in after all the treatment is completed. With outpatient care, you’re going to be faced with the stresses of life that you’re going to have to live with later. You’re going to have to deal with [...]
What can a addict learn from relapse?
Relapse can be an extraordinarily positive experience if you sit down after a relapse, in a sort of calm state, with a piece of paper and ask yourself such things as what was going on just prior to the relapse, who you were with just prior to the relapse, how you were feeling inside just [...]
What are high-risk situations a addict should avoid?
There are many high-risk situations when you are recovering. But, this is an extraordinarily important point: in the disease model, in the twelve-step model, there is a belief that all high-risk situations should be avoided. Let’s say there was, you were trying to recover from alcohol or something like that, and there was a big [...]
Why does relapse happen to addicts?
Relapse happens to behavioral addicts because it’s very normal to relapse. No matter what it is that you’ve done for a long period of time, it is still difficult if you are asking yourself or someone is asking you to not do that. Let’s say we asked you not to brush your teeth; I think [...]
What is the difference between a “slip” and relapsing in addiction recovery?
A slip, or a lapse or relapse, are just terms that we use as professionals to sort of convey the length of time and severity of the fall back into the old behaviors. A relapse is considered a full fall back into the old destructive behaviors. It may be short-term. It may be as short [...]
Why does relapse happen to addicts?
Relapse happens to behavioral addicts because it’s very normal to relapse. No matter what it is that you’ve done for a long period of time, it is still difficult if you are asking yourself or someone is asking you to not do that. Let’s say we asked you not to brush your teeth; I think [...]