How to Build a Support System After Treatment

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How to Build a Support System After Treatment
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• The most dangerous thing recovering patients can
  do after drug addiction treatment is thinking
  they can do it alone.
• You have to build your own support system when
  you step out that door and back into your life.
• The chance of not reverting back to your old way
  just multiplies if you have your own family and
  friends surrounding you.

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What is a Support System?

• If you were hooked to mind-altering substances,
  whether its drugs or alcohol, your mental
  condition is going to be very fragile.
• The problem goes much deeper than just changing
  mindset as your body is still trying to flush out
  some of the toxins and bad habits that you
  acquired over the years as a result of substance
  abuse.

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• A support system is people you trust with your
  life, people you know wont lead you astray, and
  people who really want to help you pull through.
• They dont necessarily have to be family, but
  friends, your teacher, neighbors, or even a
  priest.
• Whats important is they are willing to accompany
  you in your journey to recovery.

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How to Build Your Support System

• Make a List of People You Trust.
• Ask for assistance.
• Join support groups.
• Be open at work.

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Make a List of People You Trust.

• Make a list of people in your life who you think
  are willing to commit to your recovery.
• Then consider ranking them by order of their
  commitment to you.
• You may have a very close friend, but his
  schedule may not permit him to be with you when
  the time comes.
• Support is not enough, whats more, important is
  to be there when you most need the help.

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Ask for assistance.

• Sometimes, its as easy as just opening yourself
  up to somebody else.
• It can sometimes be awkward, especially if you
  have done some things before that you are not
  proud of.
• But dont underestimate peoples willingness to
  help. But the first step must come from you.

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Join support groups.

• Once you have your own core group and confident
  about their dedication to support you as you seek
  treatment for drug addiction, you may need to
  join a group of recovering patients.
• While your friends can give you sympathy and
  lending hand, sometimes you may need empathy.
• And you can only get that from people who also
  went through the same struggles as you did.

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Be open at work

• Dont hide from your co-workers the fact that you
  went into rehab. They can serve as an additional
  support group.
• You should realize, however, that not everybody
  is going to be supportive at work, and some of
  them might badmouth you or spread some gossip.
• While your support group can insulate you from
  the hate, the important thing is to be
  even-keeled. You shouldnt let a few people get
  you down.

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Fractured relationships

• One of the consequences of addiction is the
  fractured relationships.
• Oftentimes, their drug-addled mental state did
  not really consider the feelings of people they
  love.
• So you should realize that while you are
  recovering, bear in mind that you broke their
  trust before.
• You are actually going on a journey together to
  find yourselves as individual persons, and also
  rediscover each other within the dynamics of your
  relationship.

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Postpone romantic connections

• While you are still recovering, avoid entering
  into a relationship with anybody, at least for
  the time being.
• You are in a very vulnerable state right after
  your drug addiction treatment and prone to
  slipping back at the slightest trigger.
• Its important to stay alone for the meantime,
  along with the help of your support group, not
  just to heal your body and mind, but also to give
  time to love yourself again.

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