E181: Can Chronic Relapsing Negatively Affect Others in the Sober Community?

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Send us a text Relapse is common in sober communities. Can chronic relapse be disruptive to the group? If it is, how should it be addressed? We talk about chronic relapsers and how their presence can actually enhance the sobriety of those who continue with their recovery journey and how they should be treated with empathy. We discuss some who relapsed for decades, only to finally find continuous sobriety. We also discuss how to address anyone in a recovery commun...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:01.6	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:02.6	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.8	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:06.5	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:11.0	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has to face day to day.
0:16.2	Now we overcame those struggles.
0:18.0	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous. You're not
0:22.2	alone. This is the Sober Friends podcast. Steve, the first meeting I ever went to, actually,
0:28.4	this is ironic. We're taping on a Sunday night around 6 p.m. And the first meeting I ever went to
0:34.6	is on a Sunday night, I think it might be at six. In East Hartford, it's a
0:39.8	quote unquote beginner's meeting near a bunch of sober houses. In that meeting, there were a bunch
0:46.6	of people who were chronic relapsers. One guy kept like kind of wandering around the room saying,
0:53.7	like kind of almost mumbling themselves,
0:55.2	I relapse, I relapse, I relapse.
0:57.8	And I didn't know what the hell I had gotten involved in going there.
1:01.8	First meeting.
1:02.7	It's not what I had as an expectation.
1:05.6	It makes me think about people who come into meetings who are chronic relapsers.
1:12.5	And I thought there is, how do you handle people like that?
1:16.4	Are they a detriment to the other people or can they be a benefit?
1:22.9	And if they're a detriment, what do you do?
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