Crazy relapse experience - lesson learned
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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Welcome to SR, Justanotherdrunk
Thank you for sharing this story with us. I was happy to read that your friend isn't really dead. Keep working on your program because you must be doing something right to still be sober! I hope we'll *see* more of you around here.
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Thank you for sharing this story with us. I was happy to read that your friend isn't really dead. Keep working on your program because you must be doing something right to still be sober! I hope we'll *see* more of you around here.
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 410
It sounds like your friend needs to recover on more levels than simply "not drinking". What she did was without regard for anyone or anything, except her own ego. I hope she is able to get emotionally stable and not have a negative effect on those in recovery around her.
Best wishes.
Best wishes.
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Saint Paul, MN
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Another update here...
I haven't spoken to her personally, heard this from a close friend who has.
She must have done this during a blackout. She doesn't remember it at all. From what my friend said, she's very apologetic and embarrassed.
Just another example of the crazy stuff we do that we don't even know about.
The word is she's been sober and is living with family. They have taken car keys, credit cards, etc. away. Not a totally fool-proof system, as we all know. But at least it sounds like no one is enabling, which is something we feared when we first heard she was back with family.
Since this incident, there have been three others who have relapsed (out of the "gang" who were all in treatment together for 5 months). One has been hospitalized multiple times (he likes to eat fentanyl patches).
I haven't spoken to her personally, heard this from a close friend who has.
She must have done this during a blackout. She doesn't remember it at all. From what my friend said, she's very apologetic and embarrassed.
Just another example of the crazy stuff we do that we don't even know about.
The word is she's been sober and is living with family. They have taken car keys, credit cards, etc. away. Not a totally fool-proof system, as we all know. But at least it sounds like no one is enabling, which is something we feared when we first heard she was back with family.
Since this incident, there have been three others who have relapsed (out of the "gang" who were all in treatment together for 5 months). One has been hospitalized multiple times (he likes to eat fentanyl patches).
Forward we go...side by side-Rest In Peace
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Serene In Dixie
Posts: 36,740
Yes, it's sad to see friends fall in and out of recovery.
It took me 4 years to finally quit...so I do know
how fragile early sobriety can be.
Blessings to all of you
and thanks for sharing with us here.
It took me 4 years to finally quit...so I do know
how fragile early sobriety can be.
Blessings to all of you
and thanks for sharing with us here.
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