When dealing with a loved one’s addiction for a prolonged period of time, it sometimes gets to the point when you lose your patience and vent your anger out on them. Sometimes the things we say to them can become the reason for their relapse into drug use disorder.
JessiRae Pulver-Adell shares 6 things you should always refrain from saying to recovering addicts.
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6 Things to Never Say to People in Recovery by JessiRae Pulver-Adell
You’re no stranger to the struggle of addiction recovery if you’ve been mortified about the things spawning from your mouth in the heat of the moment with a loved one struggling with a substance use disorder. Addiction is a disease many feel personally attacked by, even if they’re not the one battling the uphill struggle to recovery.
As parents, siblings, spouses, friends, and loved ones, we feel our well being should be more important than a prescription drug, a dose of heroin, or a denomination of cocaine. The unfortunate truth is in the height of addiction, we’re not.
Addiction has a cruel way of twisting the brain’s chemistry to crave nothing but the taste of one’s drug of choice, to help them feel normal. If you had to choose between being able to sit comfortably in your skin, or sit through a family dinner, which would you choose?
Conversely, being cast aside in favor of an addiction which is ultimately ravishing both the physical and psychological aspects of the person you love, it’s common for our words to profane themselves, glazed over in anger to express what it is we think we mean. See full post here
However, striking the right balance between not making them feel unloved and not enabling their drug abuse can be very hard. We, at Recovery Coach Training, provide the best training to coaches so they may help you handle such delicate situations.
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