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Are you avoiding relapse right?

8 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from Amber Hollingsworth's YouTube video 'Are you avoiding relapse right?' In this passage Amber challenges the common belief that emotions or external triggers are the primary causes of relapse, arguing instead that a psychological 'gate'—an internal capacity maintained by active recovery work—determines whether relapse happens.

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Most people think it's. It's the emotions or the external things that cause people to relapse, but that's really not it. Honestly, those things can make somebody, like, think about it more. Those things can maybe turn the volume up on those addiction monster mouths in your head, make them talk to you a little bit louder more frequently. I'm not saying it has no bearing on it. I'm just saying that's not what really causes it. Because, you see, there's actually. When someone is actually work in any kind of recovery program or just trying really hard, like, really doing the recovery thing, there's this psychological gate that they have on being able to keep that closed.