Stages of Recovery
Living with an Addiction
The first step is to make a commitment to live in recovery. Recovery requires a recognition of and acceptance of certain inner realities. Living with a person who is actively using is unhealthy, but what happens after the drug and alcohol use stops? Does life eventually go back to normal? If you are in a relationship with a recovering addict what kind of different types of effects can be expected?
1. Recovering addicts need to learn his or her limits and relapse signals.
2. A recovering addict needs to respond to the relapse signals as their first priority.
3. It is often difficult for family members to live without a guarantee that the addiction will not reoccur.
4. A recovering person has to maintain a balanced lifestyle, more so than if there had been no addiction to begin with.
5. Family members of a recovering addict needs to understand that he or she needs to avoid relapse even when that avoidance takes priority over the relationship and the family. Avoiding relapse is in everyone’s best interest.
Stages of Recovery
It is important to know what happens in the recovery process. Many people experience annoying symptoms during the few months of abstinence. The brain goes through a healing process due to the effects of drug and alcohol use. These withdrawal symptoms are identified as the five stages in the recovery process.
Stage One: Withdrawal Stage, people often feel bad. The body works hard to repair the damages from drug use. At this stage, an addict can go to treatment center for Detox if maintaining sobriety with sober coach becomes difficult.
Stage Two: Honeymoon Stage, the body has made most of the repairs and people usually feel great. Honeymoon Stage makes one feel overconfident and can bring on a possible relapse. This is the stage to work with a sober coach to help identify triggers or cravings.
Stage Three: The hallmark of “the wall” stage is boredom and fatigue. Due to drug and alcohol constant use, the body is healing from substance abuse effects, even though it has been two to four months from last use.
Stage Four: This stage begins after the fourth month of abstinence. People say this stage begins as their energy and mood continues to improve. At this stage, there are fewer cravings. If you have come this far into the recovery, you have made a significant progress. However, many of the problems from long-term use remain and need to be dealt with during the adjustment and resolution stages.
Stage Five: The adjustment stage, the resolution stage brings solutions to the problems in previous stage. However, some people can get complacent and inactive during this time.
The first step is to make a commitment to live in recovery. Recovery requires a recognition of and acceptance of certain inner realities. Living with a person who is actively using is unhealthy, but what happens after the drug and alcohol use stops? Does life eventually go back to normal? If you are in a relationship with a recovering addict what kind of different types of effects can be expected?
1. Recovering addicts need to learn his or her limits and relapse signals.
2. A recovering addict needs to respond to the relapse signals as their first priority.
3. It is often difficult for family members to live without a guarantee that the addiction will not reoccur.
4. A recovering person has to maintain a balanced lifestyle, more so than if there had been no addiction to begin with.
5. Family members of a recovering addict needs to understand that he or she needs to avoid relapse even when that avoidance takes priority over the relationship and the family. Avoiding relapse is in everyone’s best interest.
Stages of Recovery
It is important to know what happens in the recovery process. Many people experience annoying symptoms during the few months of abstinence. The brain goes through a healing process due to the effects of drug and alcohol use. These withdrawal symptoms are identified as the five stages in the recovery process.
Stage One: Withdrawal Stage, people often feel bad. The body works hard to repair the damages from drug use. At this stage, an addict can go to treatment center for Detox if maintaining sobriety with sober coach becomes difficult.
Stage Two: Honeymoon Stage, the body has made most of the repairs and people usually feel great. Honeymoon Stage makes one feel overconfident and can bring on a possible relapse. This is the stage to work with a sober coach to help identify triggers or cravings.
Stage Three: The hallmark of “the wall” stage is boredom and fatigue. Due to drug and alcohol constant use, the body is healing from substance abuse effects, even though it has been two to four months from last use.
Stage Four: This stage begins after the fourth month of abstinence. People say this stage begins as their energy and mood continues to improve. At this stage, there are fewer cravings. If you have come this far into the recovery, you have made a significant progress. However, many of the problems from long-term use remain and need to be dealt with during the adjustment and resolution stages.
Stage Five: The adjustment stage, the resolution stage brings solutions to the problems in previous stage. However, some people can get complacent and inactive during this time.
