Relapse Prevention In Los Angeles, CA

Common symptoms showing you need depression treatment Los Angeles include:

• Emotional relapse
• Mental relapse
• Physical relapse

In emotional relapse, you set yourself up for the possible return to drug or alcohol abuse. You feel anxious, intolerant, angry, and defensive. You isolate yourself, fail to ask for help, and do not eat or sleep as you should. During this phase, you may also stop going to support meetings as you should.

If you do not find help, you keep sliding farther into relapse into the next stage. That next stage, mental relapse, brings its own signs and symptoms. These include an internal debate about whether you should use drugs or alcohol “just once.” You feel at war with yourself.

In mental relapse you consider using from time-to-time at first, even glamorizing your past substance abuse. You think fondly about your days of drinking or using drugs. As you progress deeper into mental relapse, you start preparing to use again.

Other signs of mental relapse include lying, hanging out with people who use, fantasizing about drinking or using drugs and planning your relapse so you can hide it. If you still fail to get the support and help you need, you continue to actual physical relapse.

Physical relapse is the final stage where you return to drugs or alcohol.