Avoiding Relapse When Dealing With the Loss of a Loved One

The loss of a loved one can be very impactful on our minds, and over a period of time, the pain begins to reduce. But as it starts getting better, the memories of our loved ones return to us and we begin yearning for them much more than ever. We will hit a very deep and very long low point. This is when we relapse and go back to the condition we were initially in when the loss occurred or even worse.

Relapsing is the phenomenon of deteriorating after some improvement. Relapse can occur among the drug users, alcohol addicts, people with major psychological disorders and people who are at a loss of loved ones. relapsing has its own ill effects on the lifestyle, health and relationship managements of the affected ones.

As serious as it may seem, there is no need to panic as the modern-day rehabilitation centres are equipped with efficient staff, expert therapists and psychiatrists to help recover from the trauma of the loss of loved ones. A collective effort of the above-mentioned professionals aims at offering the best services to ensure proper recovery of the patient.

Avoiding Relapse

The loss of loved ones can turn out to be a very major addictive factor. This is because drinking and substance abuse temporarily alleviates the pain caused by the loss, it serves as a means to escape reality and helps us avoid facing our problems. It is important to realize that these addictions only make our pain much worse. It will make a huge impact on our day to day lives and render us incapable of carrying out any of our duties and will slowly degrade both our physical and mental health, eventually leading to a very tragic situation.

But this can be avoided by a number of means. Seeking the help of a therapist and signing up for rehabilitation programs are just a few of the many ways in which we can help ourselves cope with this problem.

The real problem only starts upon the path of recovery, when we are slowly beginning to take control, every single thought and memory of our loved ones will only compel us to go back to our old habits, or relapse, and seek comfort for their loss in alcohol and other drugs. It is very essential for us to realize that the only proper way to deal with this problem is to face our grief upfront and come to peace with it, there are again people willing to help us overcome this and support us through the process, you can again take the assistance and/or confide in someone about what you’re going through and how you feel and whether or not you feel like relapsing to your old habits.

Here are some things you can do to avoid relapsing:

• Confide in friends or other family members, sharing your feelings is a very essential way to deal with our problems.
• Surround yourself with positivity and positive thoughts, attend lectures on living a peaceful and easy life.
• Maintain a target number of days to stay away from the addiction, reward yourself with something nice for every few days of control.
• Maintain a journal to write down what you feel every time you are reminded of the person you lost.
• Start working on yourself, it helps to be in the right health and shape during these situations.
• Approach someone who has gone through the same problems earlier and take advice, tips and share your feelings and ask for ways to cope.
• Maintain a goal for yourself and start looking at everyday as an opportunity to bring back joy to your life.
• Find for yourself a purpose and work continuously toward it.

It is very important to keep our desire to indulge in control as every single time we relapse the symptoms become harder and harder to control until, eventually, we reach to the point of no return where eventually our addiction has consumed us. This eventuality can be avoided altogether. All it takes is the motivation to feel better and willingness to work toward our goal.

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