Addiction and saving - Using the "Worksheet For Identifying salutary transfer For Alcohol-Drugs"

One of the most prominent tasks of early rescue from alcohol and other drug addiction is learning to replace the chemical with health living skills. Alcohol or other drugs have served many purposes over the course of addiction. They have played many roles. They had meaningful functions in your life. To forestall relapse in recovery, you must find wholesome alternatives for the chemical.

Most citizen do not start drinking or using other mood altering drugs to numb emotional or psychological pain. They started drinking or using to have fun, enhance a good time, be a part of a communal group or gathering. Once you have consumed the chemical you learn fast that mood/mind altering drugs do exactly that. You learn that these chemicals work to relax you, give you courage, help you concentrate or focus. They make you more articulate, a best dancer, a good conversationalist, more outgoing, or a best lover-or at least you think the chemicals do that. And they do work for the purposes that you are applying them, at least temporarily.

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Eventually, when you come to be dependent on the chemical to deal with life, with its challenges and ups and downs, the drugs (including alcohol) seem to have a mind of their own. Use takes on a momentum of its own, and finally it's the drugs controlling you, rather than you controlling how, when, where, how much, and the outcomes.

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It is inaccurate and ineffective to believe that if you can find out "why" you used in the first place and prolonged to use despite negative consequences, that you will be cured, fixed, or struck sober. However, once you are abstinent from the chemical, in order to stay sober, you must identify the roles that the chemicals have played in your life. It is too simplistic to say that these roles are "why" you drank/used. It is more complicated than that. However, to forestall relapse, you must find new things to do with your stress, anxiety, feelings, etc. Than drink or use drugs.

Alcoholics/addicts use the chemical for numbing feelings, relaxing, giving them more self-confidence, to cut inhibitions, to escape from problems temporarily, to not think about nagging thoughts, to cut anxiety, and to feel a part of a group. There are many other roles or functions of the chemical.

Recovering citizen must identify for themselves the roles that the chemical played in their lives. Then identify the potential wholesome replacements for those roles. To support you in this process, use the following worksheet format:

Worksheet For Identifying wholesome Replacements for Alcohol/Drugs

Use cut off paper and the following format to support you in identifying the roles that the chemicals have played in your life and potential wholesome alternatives to those chemicals. You may also use a Two Column Format, where the first column is entitled "Roles" and the second column is entitled "Healthy Alternatives". First identify a conjecture that you drank/used, or a role or function that the chemical played; then identify some things that you can do instead of drinking/using when the need for that role/purpose/function returns. An example of drinking for stress discount being substituted by exercise, Aa meetings, free time skills, etc. "stress" Examples:

Role - cut Stress Replacements - corporeal Exercise, self-hypnosis, guided imagery, learning new qoute solving skills, eliminating procrastination, practice best organization, practicing cognitive therapy

Role - Having fun/entertainment Replacements - fabricate communal maintain ideas and friendship network of citizen who do not drink/use, fabricate hobbies, take salsa dance lessons, learn to play tennis, watch movies with friends,

Role - Deal with feelings Replacements - Learn to identify, own, and express feelings appropriately, learn and practice assertiveness skills, write letters to citizen that you have feelings about (but don't mail them), use prayer, look for the part that you play in the resentment or the conflict, talk to sponsor or friend, remind yourself that feelings are normal, that everyone has them, and that you have a option and a accountability about what to do with them.

Role - Relax and go to sleep Replacements - Use good sleep hygiene, get practice earlier in the day, read Big Book in bed, use idea stopping techniques to cut out mind-racing, ruminating, or worry, make an ongoing gratitude list and record it in your mind as you lie in bed, take warm bath/shower, listen to free time tapes.

The above are only a few examples of the roles that the chemicals may have played in your life. The examples of replacements are also just a sample. You might have the same replacements used for distinct role categories. For example, you might use practice to deal with anxiety, stress, anger, boredom, fun, and sleep (among others). The point is to identify what you used the chemical for and to identify replacements that you will literally try and use. Make a list. Add to it as you think of new role categories and replacement options. Make sure that your replacement lists consist of communal activities that bring you into frequent feel with other sober people. Post it by your door, in your vehicle, at your job-wherever you can see it when you most need to be reminded that there are alternatives in your life to the chemical.

The more techniques that you try, the more you use and practice them, the more likely you are to select alternatives than the chemical, when you would have normally used the chemical in the past.

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