Relapse Prevention
During this stage of relapse, you don’t want to use, but the stress resulting from your lack of self-care may eventually set you up for a relapse by creating a desire to escape
What is Emotional Relapse?
Specific changes in your thoughts, feelings, urges, or actions that provide an early indication that you have entered the relapse process
What are relapse warning signs?
Replacing one addiction with another
What is cross addiction?
The pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
Dopamine
The second stage of relapse when the desire to escape gets bigger until an inner battle with yourself begins. Part of you wants to use substances again and part of you knows you shouldn’t
What is Mental Relapse?