How Does Social Media Influence Alcoholism?
When you watch an advertisement for a new fast food product or a new piece of technology, you feel the need to buy it because of its appeal and the benefits it will tell [...]
How Do I Handle Anxiety Without Relapsing?
People who are sober struggle with anxiety all the time, even if they do not use alcohol to cope. For those who are sober after addiction to alcohol, there are some key things to keep [...]
How Do I Handle a Relapse?
Relapse is not something that happens to everyone, but it can happen to anyone in recovery. Nobody is immune to it. If you find yourself in the pitfalls of a relapse, it is a requirement [...]
Does Relapse Happen to People with Exercise Addiction?
Stress can have a negative effect on recovery in the short and long term. It means different things to different people, which means stress may motivate some people where it may draw others’ energy down. [...]
How to Prevent a Slip from Turning to a Relapse
A relapse can occur when you are sober for a long period of time but returns to substance abuse. A slip is when you return to substance abuse but stops when they automatically regret their [...]
Are You Setting Yourself Up for Relapse?
A relapse isn’t usually a spur-of-the-moment thing. By the time someone relapses, she has probably been thinking about it and working up to it for a while. A relapse can happen at any time, although [...]
Common Triggers of Relapse
Triggers to relapse is anything that can make you want to give up your sobriety and fall back to bad habits. It is normal when you first start sobriety to slip back to abusive substances [...]
Causes of Relapse
A person in recovery learns a new way of living without drugs or alcohol. He or she must replace old habits with new, substance-free ones. Recovery is very is difficult and takes time, patience, and [...]
What are the Best Relapse Prevention Skills?
The temptation to relapse is difficult for someone with an addiction to fight. During recovery, you need to avoid any triggers that could influence a relapse. This includes people, places, and things that relate to [...]
Will Living Without Drugs and Alcohol Get Any Easier?
Remember the old adage that time heals all wounds? Sometimes you cannot physically see the destruction addiction has wrought in your life, but it is there. It will take time to heal such a profound [...]