Definition of a RELAPSE

[worried878]

I read a couple of posts recently and thought about this...If someone screws up and takes a few pills, or even takes pills for a few days and then quits again quickly, is that a real relapse?  Or is it just a bump in the road?  Is a relapse more like when u go off the deep end again and go "back to the using life" for a period of time...just wondering what the general consensus was on this?

[toxictome]

Yes...that means NO oxys.....

, I suspect....If you could do them only once in a while and not every day..you wouldn't be on this forum to begin with

[gorman]

wow good questions, i was wondering the same thing. i'm goin CT and am on dat 5. I was wondering if this means i can never do OCs again. even just once and awhile as long as i don't do them every day

[mr.lucky66]

It's a personal choice as to weather it's a relapse or not. Some people here say they have been mostly clean with a slip or 2 or kicked a habit and still smoke pot and were never really clean. It all depends on whay you can live with because your the only one that really knows. all the best

[newgirl2708]

1. Take a pill to go to the grocery, relapse.
2. Take a pill for broken arm, necessary.

My two cents.

[J_friend]

My take on it is this:  the answer is in the question itself.  I had a relapse last night - I was clean for 18 days and took some pills.  If you have to ask people on a forum if you "slipped", don't you think you already KNOW the answer in your heart.

With that said, it really doesn't matter.  If you fall down, no need to ask others if you really fell ... just pick yourself up and move on.  I don't mean to sound harsh, by the way, but in my opinion, there are MANY poor choices we've already made BEFORE we swallow that first pill again.  For me, the key is to not get to the point where the pill is in my hand ... because if it is in my hand, well, it's going to be swallowed.

[ByeByePills]

We are all here for the same reason.  We LIKE to get high. No relapses, no triggers, no HALT etc., we will all face the decision to use or not.  Plain and simple.  Think about it.  We will use when we are happy, sad, rich, poor, stressed, tired, etc.  It's all the same.  Our brain will use whatever excuse it can to get its precious stuff.  It doesn't care if you lie, steal, cheat, and it will eventually consume you or kill you.  I am not being melodramatic, these are the facts that we face.  It comes down to CHOICE.