early recovery
First steps back
Early recovery is the initial phase of overcoming addiction or illness, typically the first weeks or months when someone is most vulnerable to relapse.
The term acknowledges that recovery is a process with distinct stages: In early recovery, avoiding old triggers is crucial.
It can also describe the beginning phase of economic or institutional rebound: Signs of early recovery in the housing market.
- healingRestoration of health
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- detoxSubstance removal process
- rehabAddiction treatment program
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
dry drunk · withdrawal · step · higher power · sponsor · meeting · support group · cravings · support · therapy · making amends · clean · sober · clean time · fragile · hope · surrender · amends
- recoverysobriety, rehab, detox, sober, healing process
early recoveryrelapse
Return to former illness
deterioration · regression · rock bottom · downward spiral · hitting bottom
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