Pick up your free 103 page Addiction Recovery Help Guide and enhance your life free of addictions. Join our growing community. The author, Bill Urell MA.CAAP-II, is an addictions therapist at a leading drug rehab. He teaches healthy life styles and life skills. Visit: http://AddictionRecoveryBasics.com
Being new in drug addiction recovery is not easy. Everything seems to take forever. We wonder will we ever 'get it'. Here are some proactive action steps you can employ to help things along.
These action items, if completed will really help out, and increase chances fr success.
1. Continue Counseling- the best thing that you could do for yourself is to continue counseling outside of the addiction treatment center. Your therapists and counselors will be the main ones to keep you right on track in your recovery efforts!
2. Remember Time - After you have gotten out of the addiction and recovery center you may be frustrated with the thoughts of alcohol or drugs that are plaguing your mind. However, you must remember that recovery is a process that takes time and there is nothing you can do to speed up the process of time, no matter how dismal or depressing that thought seems.
3. Keep yourself Occupied - Many recovering addicts often find it hard not to go back to their old lifestyles, but the one thing that can help greatly is to keep yourself productively occupied. Get new interests, find new friends who are happy and pleasent, avoid boredom and isolation may prevent you from re-engaging in destructive behavior.
4. Take One Day at a Time - If you are becoming so frustrated that you're feeling like you just want to have some more alcohol or that one last taste of drugs, stop before you get there! Take a deep breath and realize that your recovery will only go one day at a time! Sometimes day by day is tough, we have to take it minute by minute or hour by hour.
5. Find New Behaviors- this is something that many addiction counselors will focus on, but what are you going to do when it should have been the time for your daily dose of alcohol, LSD, marijuana, or other drug? If you can find fifferent things to do with that time of day, it will be better for you in the long run.
6. Let your Family Know. - Difficult as it may be, your family should be the first to know. They will give you emotional support and help you stay steady and focused!
7. Never Give Up! This concept is as old as the hills but it has been proved to work! A recovering addict is an individual who cannot afford to give up. The substances that you quit will show up to tempt you, just remember never to give in.
Remembering all of these 7 steps for drug addiction recovery is crucial to getting past the first days, weeks, and months following your decision to stop the substance abuse in your life. By following all of these steps and surrounding yourself with positive influences will help you now and in the future when you absolutely need it.
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