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| Relapse Symptoms From today's e-mail ... ________________________________________ Sixteen relapse symptoms to watch out for: 1. Exhaustion - Allowing oneself to become overly tired; usually associated with work addiction as an excuse for not facing personal frustrations. 2. Dishonesty - Begins with pattern of little lies; escalated to self-delusion and making excuses for not doing what's called for. 3. Impatience - I want what I want NOW. Others aren't doing what I think they should or living the way I know is right. 4. Argumentative - No point is too small or insignificant not to be debated to the point of anger and submission. 5. Depression - All unreasonable, unaccountable despair should be exposed and discussed, not repressed: what is the "exact nature" of those feelings? 6. Frustration - Controlled anger/resentment when things don't go according to our plans. Lack of acceptance. See #3. 7. Self-pity - Feeling victimized, put-upon, used, unappreciated: convinced we are being singled out for bad luck. 8. Cockiness - Got it made. Know all there is to know. Can go anywhere, including frequent visits just to hang-out at bars, boozy parties. 9. Complacency - Like #8, no longer sees value of daily program, meetings, contact with other alcoholics, (especially sponsor!), feels healthy, on top of the world, things are going well. Heck may even be cured! 10. Expecting too much of others - Why can't they read my mind? I've changed, what's holding them up? If they just do what I know is best for them? Leads to feeling misunderstood, unappreciated. See #6. 11. Letting up on disciplines - Allowing established habits of recovery - meditations, prayer, spiritual reading, AA contact, daily inventory, meetings - - to slip out of our routines; allowing recovery to get boring and no longer stimulating for growth. Why bother?! 12. Using mood-altering chemicals - May have a valid medical reason, but misused to help avoid the real problems of impending alcoholic relapse. 13. Wanting too much - Setting unrealistic goals: not providing for short-term successes; placing too much value on material success, not enough on value of spiritual growth. 14. Forgetting gratitude - Because of several listed above, may lose sight of the abundant blessings in our everyday lives: too focused on # 13. 15. "It can't happen to me." - Feeling immune; forgetting what we know about the disease of alcoholism and its progressive nature. 16. Omnipotence - A combination of several attitudes listed above; leads to ignoring danger signs, disregarding warnings and advice from fellow members. -- Akron Intergroup News, December 1998
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Excellent reminders, thanks for sharing this Carol!
__________________ "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty, and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming---*WOW-What a ride*!" |
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Thank yoiu!
__________________ i close my eyes and see clearly i stop trying to listen and hear truth i am silent and my heart sings i seek no contact and find union i am still and move forward i am gentle and need no strength i am humble and remain whole (ancient taoist meditation) |
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