Earthquakes are not always caused by mother nature, sometimes we have human produced earthquakes in our everyday lives. We had a couple over the Fourth of July weekend one that I really do not want to go into detail about since it was a relapse and devastating at the time. I think it was the relapse that I knew was looming out there and we had to get over it. I am just hoping that he has learned from his mistake and will make better choices next time. We seem to be getting back on track.
The first time I heard about “The Stages of Change” was in March 2007. My son was in the psychiatric ward for an eating disorder (very unusual for a male). The nutritionist was explaining to me where she thought he was in recovery and told me to research the “Stages of Change“. Of course at [...]
Having a troubled teen comes with a lot of baggage. I have found what makes residential treatment successful is the lack of baggage and the enforcement of consistent consequences. A successful therapeutic program is how they deal with the kids day to day and do not hold on too baggage. All the kids in RTC [...]
This is a blog posting I found written by what it sounds like is an addict. I thought she recounts quite well what relapse is for the addict. I liked her description of the difference between what once was ”partying” is now “relapse”. Read her story, the link is below.
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One rehab…one hundred relapses. Hardly seems worth it to most [...]
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