Identify high-risk situations
Determine your trigger situations. Make a list of friend or groups, or places which you hang out often. Make a plan or strategies for how you would deal with these situations in advance. This way when you find yourself in one, you automatically know what to do. This will serve as your escape plan so you don’t relapse.
Take a grip on your feelings
As you experience negative or positive feelings, learn to deal with them on a here and now basis. This wont allow problems to build up and explode, this is one way on how to prevent relapse
Join a Support Group
You must learn that you cannot do it alone. Having the support of your family, friends, coworkers and support group can help you to deal with your emotions and problems, and be the lookout for signs that suggest a possible relapse.
Take Care of Your Health
The possibility for you to relapse increases if you are not taking care of yourself. You may feel exhausted or stress that you just want to escape. Try to do meditation, yoga and exercise this will allow you to feel relaxed. If he urge to use alcohol or drugs increase you could relapse, by taking care of yourself you can minimize going back into your old ways
How to deal with mental urges
- First tell a someone your personally trust having feelings about using. Just by talking to someone the urge will begin to disappear. You are not along, and that a big step.
- Most urges can last between 15-30 minutes try doing something by taking a hike a walking. Invite a friend to lunch or just hang out. Do anything other than just sitting there alone and allow your urges be satisfied
- It is important to relax, when you are tense your urge to do your old ways has great tendency to take your resolve. Whatever make you relax and is a positive activity, get on with it when feel tense.
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