How To Recover From A Relapse Under The 12 Step Model

How do I recover from a relapse under the 12 step model?

The key there is to stop the relapse before it goes on so far. It is going to be very difficult to retain balance again, whether you're going to have to go through detox again, if it's a substance. Even if it's a behavior, you're going to have to go through all those uncomfortable feelings again. You're going to have to make up for all of the negative consequences that you have experienced and you're going to have to do things differently again. Sometimes, I would say, people in the process of recovery, they may have a slip or two because there is still that part of us inside wanting to play the game and is still wanting to fall back into that addictive behavior. All of those dialogues or those internal messages of "just one won't hurt" or "I need to reward myself" or "I wasn't really that bad", those are the things that set us up and those are the things that can take us down the road where we are going to have even more problems later on.