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    Recovery Tools: And How to Use Them
    Recovery Tools: And How to Use Them
    Recovery Tools: And How to Use Them
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    Recovery Tools: And How to Use Them

    By Donn Robinson

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    Embark on a journey of recovery from addiction by exposing the core misguided beliefs that keep you stuck. Unlock the path to lasting recovery by reshaping your mindset and embracing truth.

    Donn Robinson, a retired substance abuse counselor and former addict

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPalmetto Publishing
    Release dateSep 10, 2024
    ISBN9798822936713
    Recovery Tools: And How to Use Them
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    Donn Robinson

    Donn Robinson Sr. is a retired substance abuse and mental health counselor. Donn is a recovering alcoholic and addict who has been in recovery for thirty four years. Donn has extensive experience in both mental health primary diagnosis settings and substance abuse settings. Donn writes to be helpful to anyone who wants to recover or to assist others in a successful recovery.

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      Recovery Tools - Donn Robinson

      Ideas

      My first area of focus is going to be on ideas. In my opinion the most important recovery tool of all (aside from surrendering to God and seeking him with your whole heart!) is to examine the ideas that led to active addiction. Decide to discard them and actively counter them when they return. Replacing the old ideas with ideas that are more in line with reality and nurturing these ideas until they supplant the old ones entirely is vital.

      In reflecting on the conditions in the world today and its relationship to toxic ideas, I would ask you to reflect on some recent phenomena. First the ideas behind mass shootings. To think that it is an OK thing to get a firearm and then go out and shoot and kill innocent people. How unhealthy is this idea?? How about the person who decides that if a police officer tries to stop them for a traffic violation, they are going to shoot him/her and try to get away. How about the man or woman who decides that it is OK to cheat on their spouse as long as they don’t get caught? Do you see the lack of good sense in these ideas? If you don’t, you may need to adopt some ETHICS, I had to do that, and I am still working on it!! We are ALL a work in progress.

      Lies and Truth

      Lying to ourselves is one issue, and many of these lies are common to most of us. These lies will be identified, and the truth will be highlighted. Developing a recovery lifestyle will be discussed, along with roadblocks to this effort identified. Also, methods to get past these roadblocks discussed.

      Changing our values, recovery decisions, taking care of business, healthy boundaries, and tools of recovery will be discussed in this work in an effort to assist you in developing a healthy recovery plan. Last, and by no means least, spirituality will be discussed as a key factor in a successful and happy recovery.

      False Ideas We Tell Ourselves

      1.) Everyone’s doing it. This is a lie that groups everyone who has a glass of champagne at New Year’s with severe alcoholism and folks who take meds for conditions like high blood pressure with heroin addiction. After I had been in recovery for some time and met and interacted with earth people for some time, I realized that this was a big lie. The difference between an alcoholic and an earth person is this; an earth person can always predict how much they are going to drink and their response to having alcohol in their system is radically different from an alcoholic. They will say, I am not going to have another one because I am feeling the last one. Perhaps feeling slightly tipsy and uncomfortable. The alcoholic feels a sense of comfort and has a get-up-and-go experience. I shouldn’t have another one, but I’m going to. They can’t predict with any accuracy how much or how long they will continue use;(Barefoot Bill) addicts feel a very strong compulsion to use again, sometimes to avoid the severe withdrawal symptoms that will occur if they don’t use. If the blood pressure med doesn’t work well for the high blood pressure person, they will ask the doctor to change it and are not concerned with the previous med. Truth is, most people do not drink or use drugs like we do.

      2.) I am just partying and having a good time. Toward the beginning of my career as an alcoholic addict, I remember asking a friend the dumbest question I ever asked. The day after a party where I drank till I had a blackout (a blackout is a period of amnesia where you don’t remember what happened) I asked my friend Did I have a good time? What I had was obvious. I had lost time!! As I pursued my addictive career, all the while telling the lie to myself and others, I’m just partying, inside, I was becoming more and more unhappy. When I began to experience this, I drank more and added other drugs to the mix. I got to the point where I could not believe myself and was forced to realize that I was deeply unhappy. I could not even remember when it was actually fun, it had been so long.

      3.) I’ll just do a little for my nerves. The common drugs of abuse are all potent anesthetics. The result is they numb you. While you are anesthetized, your drug is doing damage to your organs and systems, but that is not how you experience it. Instead, you experience it as feeling more comfortable because you are numb. You are totally unaware of the damage that’s occurring. When I woke up into recovery and looked around me, I asked myself a question: if alcohol was so good for your nerves, why are these guys shaking so bad? Why, if they drink too long do they develop neuropathy? The answer is: it is very destructive to your nerves and every other system in your body. Since that time, I have come to realize that all of the popular drugs of abuse are damaging and my experience with thousands of clients has supported that truth.

      4.)I’m just using to cope. This lie fails to realize that the use of mind-altering, addictive drugs will undermine and perhaps destroy every coping skill you ever had and prevent you from developing any productive skills. Using the drug is counterproductive! Many of us in recovery have realized that we don’t have much in the way of skills to manage our emotions, our relationships, or our lives for that matter while drinking and drugging. I remember making the decision that I was going to learn some healthy coping skills because I had almost none.

      5.) I’m grown; I can do what I want when I want. I label this as a faulty operating message. Why? The reason I label it as faulty is that it gets disastrous results! Doing the next wrong thing leads, in the fullness of time, to the next wrong result. We are all free to choose the next right or the next wrong thing and experience the results. The programs of AA and NA have some sayings related to this: I have an allergy to drugs—when I use, I break out in handcuffs or I have an allergy to drinking—when I drink, I break out in big problems. While it is true that you can do what you want, do you see the next loss coming? Most of us tell ourselves that we have bad luck, or that life is a B. The truth is if you are still breathing and you haven’t been tried and convicted of everything you are guilty of, you are a very fortunate person.

      6.) I’m not hurting anyone, and if I am hurting anyone, it’s only myself and only a little. This lie enables us to go on using because telling ourselves the truth would either drown us in guilt or force us to stop, the truth is we are hurting every person in our lives who cares whether we live or die. Imagine yourself sitting in your home and you look out the window at your child who you love very much, and your child pulls out a revolver and points it at their head

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