Relapse Sucks – Thursday Thought
RELAPSE SUCKS REFLECTION Relapse is part of the family systems illness of substance use disorder. When a family member relapses, the implications of that choice reverberate throughout a family. Statistics state that between 40 to 60 percent of people...
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Relapse Sucks
Relapse sucks. It creates fear, self-loathing, blame, sadness, anger, dangerous choices, and a whole lot of collateral damage. And, as relapse is part of the family systems disease of substance use disorder, it hurts every member of the family.
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NATIONAL RECOVERY MONTH: STOPPING THE “DIRT BAG” STEREOTYPE – Thursday Thought
REFLECTION National Recovery Month celebrates recovery in the lives of those who have suffered from substance use disorder. It also helps to create better understanding that substance use disorder is a disease. This disease not only disrupts the life...
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NATIONAL RECOVERY MONTH: STOPPING THE “DIRT BAG” STEREOTYPE
National Recovery Month. Definitely something to celebrate.
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RIDE OR DIES – Thursday Thought
Reflection Your ride or dies are the friends that always have your back no matter what. Their loyalty, humor and insight companion you along the rough road of the family systems disease of substance use disorder. In the midst of an...
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RIDE OR DIES
You know exactly who they are. Your ride or dies. The friends you can count on no matter what. You couldn’t possibly survive the storm surge of an addiction crisis without them. Their loyalty stays closer to you than your own...
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SETTING BOUNDARIES ON THE WAY TO PARADISE – THURSDAY THOUGHT
REFLECTION Setting healthy boundaries in the chaos of a family addiction crisis is a difficult thing to do. The very nature of a substance use disorder enmeshes a family in a tangle of emotions, decisions and regrets that can...
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SETTING BOUNDARIES ON THE WAY TO PARADISE
Our 25th wedding anniversary arrived when our 19-year-old son was living at the Y, unemployed, heavily abusing alcohol and opioids, and raising a lot of hell a few miles from our home.
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