In today's video, we are going to talk about the three main causes of relapse.
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okay let's get into our topic the three reasons for relapse and I'm gonna put
these in somewhat of an order because I think the stronger your recovery gets
the stronger your disease of addiction gets and it will come at you in
different ways so I'm gonna start with the basic level number one and we're
gonna move down into the advanced level number three okay the first and probably
most common reason people relapse on drugs and alcohol is because they had
some form of thinking I'm different and this can look a lot of different ways it
can mean okay yeah I get it I'm an alcoholic but I'm not a drug addict
I can still use those drugs or yeah I'm an addict but hey I can still smoke
marijuana it's some form of hey you don't know me I'm a little different
than everybody else and those rules don't apply to me so it's this idea of
I'm special I'm unique I'm different and I don't have to do it
the way everyone else is telling me to do it including my family my sponsor my
recovery coach my 12-step group my treatment center and everyone else
around me guess what that is the most common reason why people relapse and
that's okay because recovery is a learning process and you pretty much got
to go through all those things so that's level number one reason number two why
people relapse it's because they fail to really fully appreciate the powerfulness
of addiction have you heard that saying addiction is cunning and baffling well
it is absolutely the case and when you fail to appreciate just how strong this
thing is just the mind control it can have on you and everyone around you
you've got to have a healthy respect for what you're dealing with this thing
knows exactly what your vulnerabilities are it knows exactly where the cracks in
your armor are and it will weasel in there and do whatever it has to do to
take you down and obviously it's got a lot of ways to do this but the good news
is addiction is pretty predictable basically what you need to remember is
addiction wants to get you off to yourself it wants to get you
disconnected from everything and every person around you that's holding your
recovery solid I like to say it's like a lion hunting for a gazelle man it like
it wants to chase after you get you separated from the pack take you when
you're weak by yourself and vulnerable and pounce that's how this disease is
going to get ahold of you I used to have a a young guy in a group that I ran
years ago and he used to always say this thing he used to say it's just as soon
as you get used to one voice it will change its voice and tell you something
else so for example when you're a newbie your disease tells you things like just
one last time or I'll just have a couple once you've been around the block a time
or two you stop listening to that because you know it's a bunch of bull
well then it starts to tell you more advanced things which is something like
oh you can do this you never had a problem with this or they'll tell you
something like oh you'd go over your cousin Ray Ray's house because you
haven't seen him in a long time and you're just saying hey you're not gonna
use listen it's gonna do whatever it has to do sometimes it's the short game like
just one more time and sometimes it's the long game where it just little by
little by little get you closer and closer and closer until it has you off
by yourself like that long little gazelle and pow you have got to have a
healthy respect and appreciation for just how powerful this thing is and now
that we've said all that let's move on to the reason people relapse number three so
let's say you get it you're not different you have this problem and you
do have a healthy respect for it exactly how powerful addiction and alcoholism
really are you could fall into category number three which is a little category
I like to call the F its this is when you let yourself get so
stressed out worn down exhausted basically what happens here is you don't
do a really good job of dealing with your mental health your relationships
your stresses your spirituality and you let yourself get
worn down to the point that you start feeling sorry for yourself you start
having a little victim thinking because when you get stressed out enough and you
have enough resentments and you feel bad enough for yourself you just get to the
point that you're just like f it I don't even care I'm just gonna drink I don't
care if I drink myself to death you get to that point where it's just over you
throw your hands up in the air and it is on and not only is it a relapse it's
gonna be a big old bad dirty ugly relapse like it is on like Donkey Kong
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