Relapse Prevention Sheet

The post on my last relapse was one that I didn’t really want to write, but it seemed necessary.  (I don’t like to relapse.)  I was hopeful when I wrote it though.  I really felt that by doing the things in my action plan, that I would be able to stave off further relapses.  So far it has had not only that effect, but has helped me to feel better about myself in general. (This is no small feat, given my unemployment, and accompanying glut of free time.)

There have been a couple of things that have been particularly helpful.  One of them is the Relapse Prevention Sheet. 

The Guy in the Hotel

In the last semester of my undergraduate career, I wasn’t exactly a social person.  I kept to myself, socializing at a rate of almost never.  I moved into an apartment with three guys I didn’t know.  I needed a place to stay for the semester, and so I just found someplace that was acceptable.  Other than my freshman year, and while I was out of the country, I lived with my brother.  Now that he was married, that didn’t seem like a good idea, even though he had offered.

While I was on study abroad, I was not exactly active in the church.