Quotes About Relapse

Therapy allows a person to make sense of the new self he has attained on medication, and to accept the loss of self that occurred during a breakdown. You need to be reborn after a severe episode, and you need to learn the behaviors that may protect against relapse. You need to run your life differently from how you ran it before.

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

The counselor says that we are at the beginning of a long, uphill journey. She says, Relapse is a part of recovery. I think, You have got to be fucking kidding me. I say, Do I look like someone who's ready for a long, uphill journey? Lucy snickers for a second, and I love her. I lover her much more than I want to. But I am worn down and out. The thought of another trip crushes me. I tell Lucy, You are my family. But I'm not coming with you.

The idea of the Eternal Return can be fully grasped only by a man endowed with several chronic, hence recurrent infirmities, and who thus has the advantage of proceeding from relapse to relapse, with all that this implies as philosophic reflexion.

I understand the world of addiction. I get it. I know how fleeting recovery can be.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

Giving up smoking is easy… I've done it hundreds of times

Bulls**t,' I say. 'You chose to relapse. You didn't have to.' I hate it when alcoholics relapse and then act like somebody cut the bake lines on their cars. 253-254.

Bulls**t,' I say. 'You chose to relapse. You didn't have to.' I hate it when alcoholics relapse and then act like somebody cut the brake lines on their cars.

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that.

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.

I'd been good about booze for six months, but nothing counted here.

I've seen him become sober so many times and do so well, and struggle to be a right guy. And fall apart again. But to what end?

There are three roads that can be taken in recovery. There is the clean path of sobriety and there is the road to relapse. The third way is the fast out. It is when the traveler realizes that relapse is just a slow suicide and there is no reason to wait.

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The doctor explained that this type of relapse occurred in less than ten percent of childhood leukemia patients, and that Megan would require frequent spinal taps to inject chemotherapy drugs directly into her cerebrospinal fluid.