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Navigating Alcohol Recovery Challenges

26 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Amber Hollingsworth about alcohol recovery and relapse warning signs. In this chunk Amber interprets a partner's report (six weeks of effort with slips) and identifies bargaining and withdrawal of affection/intimacy as central emotional relapse warning signs, suggesting these behaviors may indicate imminent or current substance use or a plan to use.

Okay, so let me break this into pieces, Mike. So what you're saying is, for the last six weeks, she's been trying really hard in recovery, and it's not been perfect. She's had some slips, but she's really working on it. I think that's what you're saying. But recently, she's fallen back to bargaining. Why would she completely stop? Affection and intimacy. When you start feeling that wall come up, that's relapse warning sign central. And it either means they're already using or. Or they're going to be very quickly. Or they have a plan to already, and it's a way of shutting out the guilt. So based on these two sentences, that's my guess.