MOTIVATIONAL ENHANCEMENT AND RELAPSE

PREVENTION
(ABD8033)

UNDERSTANDING
THE RELAPSE
PROCESS
PRESENT By:
MOHD. MUSTAFA BIN MOHD. WARDI
MOHD. FIRDAUS TAY BIN ABDULLAH
RUZIYANA BINTI MD. SALEH
 01 INTRODUCTION

02 RELAPSE INDICATORS
CONTENTS PHASES OF RELAPSE
03 PROCESS

04 PREVENTION PLAN
The resumption of pathological drug use or self-
harm after a time of recovery is a type of
spontaneous recovery.
Individuals who have acquired
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a drug addiction
or any sort of drug dependence, as well as those
who have a mental disease, are prone to relapse.
 Relapse occurs Relapse shows
within our mind itself in a progressive
pattern of behavior
Our attitudes and mental r
Others can pick up on our
processes influence our thoughts by observing our
relapse tendencies. In actions. Our actions,
other words, we start to feelings, and answers
'slip' at the level of indicate that we are once
cognition. again on the verge of
using drugs.
 Relapse is a stage-by-stage process in which our minds develop an
overpowering need for drugs. It is this cognitive process that should be
referred to as a relapse. Relapse starts in the mind, and it starts much earlier
than when we start using drugs again.
The relapse process is the movement away from recovery. It means that if we
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are not paying attention to our recovery and not doing things that contribute
to the process of recovery, we may be unconsciously moving in the direction of
relapse. Relapse is not uncommon during recovery. It may happen once or
even more than once during diflerent stages of recovery. Relapse and recovery
go side by side. Tliey can be actually perceived as two sides of the same coin.
 1 MENTAL 2 PHYSICAL 3
EMOTIONAL Once in mental relapse, When a person doesn’t take
Emotional relapse is the first which is best described as a the time to acknowledge and
war going on inside one’s mind. address the symptoms from
phase of the three phases of Part of them wants to use, emotional and mental relapse, it
relapse. During this stage, the while the other part doesn’t. doesn’t take long to lead down
person is not actively thinking Fantasizing about using is not the path to physical relapse. This
about using drugs or alcohol. uncommon in rthis stage. As includes the act of drinking
However, their emotions and individuals go deeper into the alcohol or using other drugs. The
mental relapse stage, their key is to reach out for help if you
behaviors may be setting find yourself in physical relapse
them up for a relapse down cognitive resistance to relapse immediately in order to stop the
the road. diminishes and their need of vicious cycle of addiction before it
escape increases. is too late
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 MENTAL
• Cravings or physical and
psychological urges to use drugs
and/or alcohol
• Thinking about people, places, and
things associated with past use
• Hanging out with old friends who
use alcohol or other drugs
• Minimizing consequences of past
use or glamorizing past use

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EMOTIONAL PHYSICAL
Bottling up your emotions • Glamorizing past drug or alcohol
• Not going to recovery support use
group meetings
• Isolating yourself from peers and • A false sense of control over use
family • Hanging around old people and
• Poor eating and sleeping habits places associated with past use
• Going to meetings but not sharing • Sudden changes in behavior
• Focusing on other people and their • Isolation
problems to avoid your own • Not going to meetings
• Defensiveness
• Mood swings • Not engaging in sober fun
 CHANGES IN FEELING
CHANGES IN ATTITUDE • Increased moodiness or depression
• Not caring about sobriety • Strong feelings of anger and resentment
• Becoming too negative about • Increased f eelings of boredom and
life loneliness

CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR
CHANGES IN THOUGHTS r • Increased episodes of arguing with others
• Thinking that I 'deserve' because I have • ‘Forgetting' to take disulfiram I naltrexone
been sober for quite sometime. • Skipping self-help group meetings
• Thinking that I can use substitute drugs • Increased stress symptoms such as smoking
• Thinking that my problem is 'cured' more cigarettes
since I have been abstaining for • Threatening to use drugs to have our way
sometime.
• Talking repeatedly about the associated
pleasures
DRUG RELAPSE TRIGGERS
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 Speak with someone in person or Think of how good you will
over the phone, such as a friend, feel if you do not use. Think
family member, or sponsor. Attend of all the benefits to your
meetings whenever possible. Keep a sobriety, both now and in the
list of people's names and phone
numbers in your wallet. future
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REDIRECTING YOUR ACTIVITY