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“Is it bad to like the way the scars look on my skin? Oh, the way they feel under my hands. My body’s protecting itself, saying, “No, this barrier of scar tissue is to keep you out.”
― Taylor Rhodes, Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses

“Don't stay too long in the shame-filled grounds of relapse. Fertile soil awaits your return and your recoverying.”
― Holli Kenley, Mountain Air: Relapsing and Finding the Way Back... One Breath at a Time

“If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.”
― Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.”
― Hippocrates, Aphorisms

“Careful how you judge others. At some point you have been, or will be all of them.â€�
â€� Frank Ruhl Peterson”
― Frank Ruhl Peterson, DIRTY WHITE BOY: One Addict's Lifelong Battle Against Heroin Addiction

“A chat

With the Grim Reaper
should be enough to scare
away any thought of relapse.
Wish it were that easy,
but not even days conversing
with death can disintegrate
the claws of addiction.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Traffick

“My brother, my little brother, he's soooo perfect, but he's - he doesn't like food, like, literally doesn't like food, or, I don't know, he loves it. He loves is so much that it has to be perfect all the time, you know?"

"And then one day he got se fed up with himself, he was like, he was so annoyed, he hated how much he loved food, yeah, so he thought it would be better if there wasn't any food." I start laughing so much that my eyes water. "But that's so silly! Because you've got to eat food or you'll die, won't you? So my brother, Charles, Charlie, he, he thought it would be better if he just got it over with then and there! So last year, he-" I hold up my wrist and point at it- "he hurt himself. And he wrote me this card afterwards, telling me he was really sorry and he didn't mean it to happen. But it did happen.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“...there is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that "Relapse is part of recovery." It's another dangerous slogan that is based on a myth, and it only gives people permission to relapse because that think that when they do, they are on the road to recovery.”
― Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“I guess my biggest problem is that I find it easier to relapse than to carry through.”
― S.A. Tawks, Mule

“It is the return of a dog to his vomit.”
― Paul Verlaine, Confessions

“Shame serves to fuel and feed relapse. Further relapse fuels and feeds shame.”
― Holli Kenley, Breaking Through Betrayal: And Recovering the Peace Within, 2nd Edition

“Relapse is about losing who we are and forfeiting our potential for who we are meant to be. Relapse gives us the opportunity to claim lessons from the past and to reclaim ourselves and our truths.”
― Holli Kenley, Breaking Through Betrayal: And Recovering the Peace Within, 2nd Edition

“If you hold on to any part of your eating disorder, you are always one step away from a relapse.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“The worrying thing is that he was well aware of his slide, but didn't seem to want â€� or be able â€� to do anything to help it.”
― Rob Jovanovic

“Stressing about a relapse happening only leads to a release happening.”
― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict

“Bulls**t,' I say. 'You chose to relapse. You didn't have to.' I hate it when alcoholics relapse and then act like somebody cut the brake lines on their cars.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“Returning to my betrayal environment was not a mistake; it offered me the opportunity to root out internal invaders and to remove their legacy.”
― Holli Kenley, Mountain Air: Relapsing and Finding the Way Back... One Breath at a Time

“The disease of addiction is a chronic, devious bitch just waiting for you to slip-up.”
― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict

“Relapse doesn't have to be part of recovery any more than return has to be part of cancer.”
― Toni Sorenson

“Bulls**t,' I say. 'You chose to relapse. You didn't have to.' I hate it when alcoholics relapse and then act like somebody cut the bake lines on their cars. 253-254.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“Girls usually take more time to move on, but once they do, they ain’t coming back ever. They’d rot alone but they won’t relapse.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“There will be times when your strength isn’t enough, when you struggle, and relapse, and feel like a total failure. If you base your identity on Him, your performance doesn’t have to define who you are anymore. You will know that you are fully adored, and wholly accepted in both good times and bad.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Each time I failed, it may have surprised me, but it didn’t surprise God, who sees and knows all things, even before they happen. That’s when it struck me. God knew I was going to stab Him in the back. God knew that if He saved my life, I was going to abuse these drugs. He knew that I was going to turn away from Him toward all the other things I loved more than Him. He knew I would relapse, yet He still chose to save my life.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Relapse begins with the whispers of complacency long before the echo of the bottle is heard.”
― Joseph Meyering Sr, AAS, SUDP