SafeHouse Podcast

Season 3 - Episode 10

Busting Addiction and Its Myths

The purpose of our podcast is to help families learn the truth about addiction and alcoholism so that they can take the right action to help the addict they love and to help themselves at this critical time in their lives. Exposing the truth about addiction and alcoholism also requires that we bust the myths surrounding both addiction/alcoholism and the recovery process.

What It Takes to Fail

Season 3 – Episode 10

Welcome back to Busting Addiction and Its Myths. This is episode 10 of Season 3. In this article, we discuss the question: “What about the things that signal a potential relapse in the making”?
There are key signs that the addict typically does not notice or will not acknowledge. Essentially the things that signal a coming relapse are not doing the things that keep us clean and sober, as in the actions described in the previous article. But there’s more.

Probably the most prominent sign of a coming relapse is DENIAL which stands for Don’t Even Notice I Am Lying. So even if one were to call the addict on his slippery behaviour, he will minimize, evade, lie, blame a family member, or bad luck, or anyone but himself,

Not getting a sponsor or not talking to him or she is an almost-sure sign that the addict’s program is adrift. That inaction goes hand in hand with not having a regular schedule of meetings. An addict without a sponsor is like a ship without a compass. He doesn’t know in what direction he should sail his ship and has no idea what to do in a stormy sea. Knowing which way True North lies is critical, and will keep him running straight, and avoid wrecking his hard-won sobriety on the rocks.

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