Small relapse?

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If your on a sober streak and you take one sip and regret it instantly and poor the rest out should you restart you sober clock?

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Yes, if you intentionally took a sip you should. The reason is without a firm line it’s more likely you’ll blur it again down the road.

It is your clock however, the only accountability that matters at the end of the day is our own.

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I really don’t want to reset it cause I was feeling so proud and it’s literally the reason I spit it out and dumped the rest

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Looking at the reasons why you took that sip is the more important thing here…we are here why not come chat with us next time before you’d take the sip?

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I will make sure to do that next time thank you

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That is your decision. If it were me, it would be a relapse. Relapses are not just about consumption. For me its also about the thought patterns that occur prior to the consumption, that lead to the consumption.

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Why does it matter if you’re on a sober streak?

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I would say that is a relapse and you should restart your clock. Unfortunately we can’t just classify something as not being a relapse because we don’t want to end our sobriety streak.

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We get to make choices in recovery that we never had in active addiction. I know in my story there has been a lot of doing things part ways, and not being completely honest with myself and others. When I came into recovery I didnt want to carry that into my future so I made a choice not to. 10 days before my 3 year anniversary I reset my clock that was counting clean time for self injuring. I wouldnt even call the episode a relapse, it was more a lapse in judgement and a lapse into old behaviors that I dont want to fall victim to anymore. I had a choice, I could have ignored it, pretended it didnt happen and celebrated the years of cleantime but whose ass would I have been blowing smoke up??? Only my own.

I suggest you show yourself that you actually mean business or else that part in your head will know you’re an easy take.

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Hi. I am new.

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