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Old 09-17-2014, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by ontherightpath View Post
Had a complete mental relapse last night. Thinking about taking pills like norco, or smoking weed, or smoking hash oil or something. Anything that would give me a buzz. As long as it wasn't alcohol. I didn't follow through, but my mind was off to the races. I woke up this morning feeling pretty crummy about those thoughts. Addiction is cunning baffling powerful. 25 days without a drink. I suppose this is just part of recovery, and I did have a bad day yesterday, so I presume that's where these thoughts came from. On a side note, I don't like weed and was prescribed norcos for my tooth and jaw, but I didn't abuse them. Just needed to share.
Mental relapse? my thoughts about getting 'out of it' were pretty much involuntary in early recovery

It's good you're vigilant, but thoughts are thoughts.

It's what we do in response that counts - and you didn't feed those thoughts and you eoke up sober and clean today.

I don't call that any kind of failure at all

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