RELAPSE ___________________________________
Significant Symptoms of Relapse
• Adamant commitment to sobriety
• Attitude of “I don't care”
• Compulsive attempts to impose sobriety on others
• Compulsive behaviors
• Conscious lying
• Denial
• Defensiveness
• Dissatisfacton with life
• Easily angered
• Feeling powerless and hopeless
• Feelings that nothing can be solved
• Idle daydreams and wishful thinking
• Immature wish to be happy
• Impulsive behaviors
• Irregular attendance at treatment meetings
• Irregular eating
• Irregular sleeping
• Irritation with friends, family
• Listlessness
• Loss of constructive planning
• Minor depression
• Misses all treatment meetings
• Open rejection of help
• Periods of confusion
• Periods of deep depression
• Plans begin to fail
• Problems with helping people
• Progressive loss of daily structure
• Self-pity
• Tendencies toward loneliness
• Thoughts of social drinking
• Tunnel vision
• Unreasonable resentments