Helpful - knowing the triggers...
Hi,
It's Saturday and somehow I made it through with my husband leaving on Thursday and not coming back until tomorrow night..... I realize what a trigger that always was for me and how it can happen so easily and boom you can go off track. But - - - though I had thoughts about going, I talked to a friend about it and before I knew her she had had a problem with drugs and overcame it. She's grown and changed so much even since I've known her - the last 3 years. Anyway, addiction is addiction to some degree; she had a little bit of the gambling bug as well. So - one thing that she told me that she learned in her counseling was when you have thoughts of relapsing - think of why - the letters H A L T help us because these are very common triggers. Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired... you can add ones that you've experienced but these are four basic ones - mine was lonely now that I think back - my husband was traveling a lot and I was lonely at times and then got hooked. It sounds so simple and logical, but when I was in it it sure wasn't. :] Anyway - here I am today, staying away, one day at a time.
Hope all is well & that these letters help someone today.
Take care,
Smokeygirl
It's Saturday and somehow I made it through with my husband leaving on Thursday and not coming back until tomorrow night..... I realize what a trigger that always was for me and how it can happen so easily and boom you can go off track. But - - - though I had thoughts about going, I talked to a friend about it and before I knew her she had had a problem with drugs and overcame it. She's grown and changed so much even since I've known her - the last 3 years. Anyway, addiction is addiction to some degree; she had a little bit of the gambling bug as well. So - one thing that she told me that she learned in her counseling was when you have thoughts of relapsing - think of why - the letters H A L T help us because these are very common triggers. Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired... you can add ones that you've experienced but these are four basic ones - mine was lonely now that I think back - my husband was traveling a lot and I was lonely at times and then got hooked. It sounds so simple and logical, but when I was in it it sure wasn't. :] Anyway - here I am today, staying away, one day at a time.
Hope all is well & that these letters help someone today.
Take care,
Smokeygirl
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