Being Ditched Is Not A Reason For You To Relapse And You Can Prevent It

 "Ditched is no reason to relapse." What a raw deal you got; is that what you have been telling yourself? You went through addiction treatment for drug or alcohol abuse only to come home and find out that your spouse or partner dumped you? Well, that is a pretty rough situation, it is true. No one likes to be ditched. But it is no reason to throw your addiction recovery away. Relapse occurrence is highly likely, and any reason can trigger its onset. Thus, you need to have a relapse prevention plan ready when you return home.

Let's face it. You have gone through one heck of a lot of pain and suffering just to get to this point. Treatment, any way you look at it, is no piece of cake. It does not matter if your drug of choice was a couple of pints of whiskey or a non-stop coke or crank binge or any combination of alcohol and drugs. Once you have been down the road of no return and climbed back out of that miserable pit, you sure do not want to revisit anytime soon.

We should also mention the time it took to get clean from the alcohol and drugs. That was not any walk in the park either, more than likely. Certainly, you have better things to do with your future than spend it redoing what you just went through. Think about another 30 to 60 days or more, and depending on what your addiction treatment center called for, it may have even been longer. How ready are you to do the old revolving door rehab routine?

Then there is also the not-so-small issue of the cost of treatment. No matter whether you still have good insurance coverage or had to practically beg family or governmental agencies for financial assistance to get you into treatment, going back is not going to be any less expensive than it was before. In fact, it may even cost more. Are you ready to face yet another mountain of debt?

This, of course, is assuming that you feel you're in danger of giving in to the understandably overwhelming desire to go outright and get drunk or stoned or whatever and not think twice about the consequences. This is assuming that you've somehow already decided that sobriety isn't worth it. You want to block everything out, especially the image of your loved one walking out the door just as you were walking in fresh from treatment.

There are so many reasons why giving into relapse is just a bad idea. These few are just the tip of the iceberg. You get the point. Now, let's go on to discuss some alternatives to your diving back into substance abuse.

The bottom line is that you should attend after-recovery meetings to stay on track. Remember that addiction recovery is a lifelong process. You can come and go in meetings, be away for extended periods, and come back again to find that the rooms still work for you. These aftercare meetings work because of the generosity of the spirit of attendees and the overall commitment to sobriety.