relapsers
Those who regress
Relapsers are people who have relapsed—returned to a harmful behavior or condition after a period of improvement.
The term appears most often in contexts of addiction recovery and medical treatment: The study compared relapsers with those who maintained sobriety.
It can also describe anyone who falls back into old patterns: chronic relapsers who keep returning to bad habits.
Regaining what was lost
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- cravingPowerful urge to have
temptation · substance · dependency · detox · rehabilitation · treatment · sponsor · twelve-step
Temporary disease absence
- recurrenceReturn of something previous
- flare-upSudden recurrence of symptoms
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- chronicPersisting over time
diagnosis · patient · treatment · condition · therapy · medication · prognosis · setback
Labored effort against resistance
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- setbackReverse in progress
willpower · discipline · commitment · journey · progress · hope · support · courage
recovery
Regaining what was lost
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- withdrawalAct of taking away
craving · temptation · substance · dependency · detox · rehabilitation · treatment · sponsor · twelve-step · backslide
remission
Temporary disease absence
- recurrenceReturn of something previous
- flare-upSudden recurrence of symptoms
- symptomsIndicators of disease
chronic · diagnosis · patient · treatment · condition · therapy · medication · prognosis · setback · episode
struggle
Labored effort against resistance
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
setback · willpower · discipline · commitment · journey · progress · hope · support · courage · persistence
relapsersabstainers
Those who forgo indulgence
maintainers · teetotalers · non-users · survivors · recovering addicts
relapserssustainers
Those who keep going
success stories · improvers · thrivers · overcomers · graduates
- relapse preventionStrategies against returning symptoms
- relapse triggersStimuli prompting behavioral regression