Relapse is a return to drug or alcohol use after you’ve achieved sobriety for a time. You are the greatest tool in preventing your relapse. Our staff wants you to understand the power you have in staying clean and sober. We can only foster what you bring to the table. At the end of the day you are in a battle. Though you may opt for inpatient treatment, we cannot be with you every day at every moment. You have to be committed to overcoming your addiction and entering recovery. At Springfield Recovery Center we want to support and undergird your recovery.

What Are The Signs That You May Relapse

An online resource offers a succinct blueprint for a solid relapse prevention plan. You may have heard the phrase that people, places, and things are the triggers behind your substance abuse or alcohol abuse. Let’s add seven more triggers to the list:

• Being overly confident that your drug or alcohol problem is completely over
• You are isolating
• Stress around relationships and sex is building
• You’re feeling acute withdrawal symptoms (physical)
• You’re suffering from post-acute withdrawal symptoms (feeling anxious and irritable)
• Not taking care of yourself
• Having uncomfortable emotions

Relapse doesn’t just happen. Once you begin treatment you will hear over and over that they are three stages of relapse: emotional,mental, and physical relapse

The Most Common Relapse Prevention Techniques

• Better self-care is a relapse prevention technique. Take great care of your self emotionally. Think about why you want to abstain from drug or alcohol use. Take great care of your diet, your sleeping habits, pay close attention to your emotions and ask for help when you’re becoming too anxious. Self-care is an important relapse prevention technique throughout the three stages of relapse because it puts the focus back on you. Not taking great care of yourself emotionally, mentally and/or physically was part of the cause of your drug abuse
• Be honest with yourself. Know where you are. If you are in emotional or mental relapse that means you haven’t physically used yet
• Distract yourself
• If you get an urge to use, make yourself wait for 30 minutes before you walk it out
• Understand that recovery occurs one day at a time. Don’t focus on staying sober forever, just focus on the moment

Experts agree that stopping the relapse before it becomes physical is your best chance. Understand the emotions involved with post-acute withdrawal. If you don’t practice self-care at the point of emotional relapse, slipping into physical relapse is harder to stop.

At Springfield Wellness Center, We Can Help You Change Your Mind

Relapse prevention techniques are interwoven throughout the programming at Springfield Wellness Center. The following is a few of the treatment options we offer:

• Mental Health Treatment Programs
• Anxiety Treatment Program
• Depression Treatment Program
• PTSD Treatment Program
• Chronic Stress Disorder Treatment Program
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Treatment Program

You are already strengthening your resolve by gathering information about relapse prevention techniques. You are well on your way. Contact our intake department at 844.334.4727 to continue on your road of recovery and understanding relapse prevention techniques. Deciding to call is a major step in the right direction!