Hell yeah, almost four weeks sober now cat-vibing

  • blight [any]
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    1 year ago

    rat-salute

    remember that if/when you relapse, it's not about streaks, but about minimizing damage

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      This is awesome advice! My gf has been dealing with sobriety from heroin, and early on relapsed more frequently. Shes now over a year without using, but wouldn't have been possible if we had just focused on streaks as opposed to understanding relapse is part of recovery

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It's terrible, I just lost my little brother because he kept refusing to understand that aspect of recovery. He just kept lying and lying to himself and everyone around him.

        One of the most important things is to have people around you who understand the difficulty of going through that recovery process or at least people that understand the danger of a relapse and are able to help you keep it at just a relapse and not your last relapse.