The Kindling effect

Anyone heard of it? Where the more you do an addiction the worser and longer the symptoms of withdrawal.

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makes sence to me. feed the fire, the fire gets bigger? ?

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Its kinda a given and a pretty well known in recovery.

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Definitely gets worse. I had 6 months sober a few years ago, the knowledge I had acquired made the drinking even worse. Lots of “I was sober 6 months, I can do it again, right after I get good and drunk tonight” thoughts/days/months/years.

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Didn’t know it actually had a name. I always called it no fuckin shit.

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It took me 16 years to find out about it. Awareness is power

My detoxes got worse on an exponential scale. Like @C-sun I don’t think my body could handle another detox. That shit hurts down to the bones.

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