Lifestyle Medicine, Healthy Diet and Substance Abuse How a healthy diet helps drug and alcohol addiction In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), food is medicinal. It is all about nourishing your body, mind and spirit by building ‘jing’. This is a…
How to prevent a drug relapse
Why people relapse
There are multiple causes for relapse. Common ones include stress, anxiety, anger, loneliness, boredom, purposelessness, the memories of great drug-highs triggered by people or places, and unrecognized triggers that can instantaneously over-rule the conscious mind and the intent to not do drugs.
Emotional triggers is the theme of the week, as it’s a major issue for drug users.
Emotional trigger people are the ones that do and say stuff that gets into your head which then drives you crazy. You go over and over what they said or did and argue and fight back with them endlessly, but all in your head.