What is the difference

Relapses
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What is the difference between relapse and a lapse?

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When I was in treatment I was told a lapse is when you go back out fir maybe a day or 2 and a relapse is when you go out longer.

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These are just subjective words used to make it seem more gentle or less serious. It’s been discussed at length in the past, along with “is it a slip or a relapse?”

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To me, lapse is lying to yourself about having a relapse and a relapse is having even one bit of your DOC

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There’s a difference?

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I would like know what difference between them too

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It’s all semantics.

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I was just going to write that :rofl::rofl:
Semantics

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My whatever lasted 457 days and I have 0 concern about what to call it… stay sober and you won’t have to worry about it…

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lapse … as in a lapse of concentration …
relapse is a completly different story

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Is there difference between lapse or realspe

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The only difference is how they are defined in a dictionary.

Believe it or not, there have been individuals who carried on “lasping” on a regular basis and had considered themselves sober because they weren’t blacking out. :unamused:

It can be a slippery slope to have a sliding scale of sobriety, personally I believe you’re either sober or you’re not.

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About two letters is the difference I see.

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Yeah, I’m thinking “lapse” is a word to make a person feel better about the relapse.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter. What matters is what you do moving forward.

YOU CAN DO IT!!

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