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The Dangers of Relationships in Rehab and Early Addiction Recovery

Romantic relationships in rehab or early recovery from addiction are as common as they're dangerous. Starting a relationship in rehab or early recovery triples your chances of relapse! This video explains the dynamics of what's happening and why and how to avoid it. ********************************* ★ Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions or need help. ★ **************************************** ➟ Congrats, you made it to rehab! Be aware though: you're most vulnerable right now Congratulations for making it to rehab. Choosing to get treatment for your addiction is the bravest thing you could've done. You realised that you are struggling and reached out for help. Be proud of yourself! Please also acknoledge that you're very vulnerable right now. ➟ Relationships in rehab - why it's so terribly tempting Throughout those first weeks and months of recovery from your addiction emotions and feelings that you have not experienced in quite a while will resurface. You're no longer numbing yourself with drugs and alcohol. However, at first - as exhilirating as it can be - it can also be very scary and confusing...especially when feelings of guilt, shame, and anxiety arise. As you currently can't access drugs or alcohol to numb those emotions, it's very common for men as well as women to look for something external to fix those feelings. You start fixing on people instead. Romantic relationships are blossoming in treatment - simply because you don’t have access to your usual way of suppressing those feelings. This is highly dangerous though. ➟ Romantic relationships affect the same reward center in your brain as drugs Getting into a romantic relationship actually lights up the same part of the brain as when you’re using drugs and alcohol. It’s the same reward center. The chances of relapse triple once you get into a relationship whilst you’re in addiction treatment. ➟ You start fixing off your romantic relationship as you used to with drugs and alcohol Why? Your ability to make good, sound choices is compromised once you get yourself into a relationship in addiction treatment. This is a chance for you to grow, to learn, and to process. Recovery is about self-discovery. It’s about you. Once you get romantically involved the focus is on the other person. You’re no longer focusing on treatment or on why you’ve come to rehab. The other person becomes your new drug. ➟ In rehab and early recovery you're not yet equipped for and practiced at dealing with all the arising and often difficult emotions What if the other person was to relapse? What if the other person was to abscond from treatment? How would you be left feeling? In more pain - which you’d want to suppress even more… but now you’ve nothing else to suppress those feelings with and haven’t yet focused on learning the tools that will help you deal with your emotions in more healthy ways and trusting that they’ll work. You may very well not see any other way than to leave rehab yourself and pick up drugs/alcohol again. ➟ Why you shouldn't get into a relationship for the 1st year of your recovery It is recommended not to get into a romantic relationship for the 1st year of addiction recovery. The reason for that is that you’ll learn skills and tools that will allow you to self-regulate your emotions. It is scary to feel feelings, it is scary to express them too. Therefore, it is highly important to learn how to be with your fear of trust, fear of rejection, fear of being judged, shame, anxiety, etc. and the massive range of positive emotions, in order to have a successful recovery. You’ll also start making connections and develop social skills. If you don’t know how to put these to practice first and are not giving yourself the time to learn and grow, then what chances of survival do you have in recovery? Please be aware, that getting into a relationship in recovery from addiction, can be an avoidance of oneself. People like to take care of other people to avoid to look at what’s going on for them. This person, this relationship is only a deterrent from the actual problem - and that lies within you. ➟ Recovery starts with you - and you have to put yourself first to make it work Remember, you come first in your recovery. So, be careful. Try not to use other people’s vulnerabilities to fix your feelings, and don’t allow someone to fix off your vulnerability either. You have to put yourself first for the right reasons. Please remember why you’re in treatment, remember that it starts with you. ********************************************* For more information on this topic have a look at our suggested reading list: ○ https://www.hope-rehab-center-thailan... ○ https://www.hope-rehab-center-thailan...