Relapse is very dangerous. However, relapse can be a symptom of the disease. Sometimes there are multiple relapses before you get sober and stay sober.
Interpretation
Relapse is a common part of the recovery process and should be understood as a symptom of addiction rather than a failure.
David Sheff highlights the challenges faced in the journey to sobriety, emphasizing that relapses can occur multiple times and should not be viewed solely as setbacks. Instead, they are indicative of the complex nature of addiction, showing that recovery often requires perseverance and understanding of the disease.
In practice
In a support group, someone might use this quote to remind others that setbacks are part of the recovery process.
If you subscribe to the idea that #β addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.
If you love someone who's an addict and their use is life-threatening, you don't wait until they hit bottom because that can mean that they're going to die. You have to do everything you can to get them in treatment.
This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.
Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.
Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs.
Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying
Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a long period of time, then you are much more attentive to minorities.
Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his enemy is bound to win some of the battles. When this happens, the warrior of light weeps bitter tears and rests in order to recover his energies a little. But he immediately resumes the battle for his dreams.
I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.
Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We donβt know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be βMad-Eye.β Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night.
People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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