Summary: Enjoy this "best of" episode from a year ago.<br> <br> Has your loved one relapsed? Did you expect it? How did you react? Today, Spencer and Jessyca talk about Relapse.<br> <br> We structured our discussion around these points and questions:<br> <br> The disease of alcoholism and addiction is chronic, progressive, and eventually fatal.<br> Relapse does not have to be part of the disease, but it is frequently part of the process.<br> As friends and family members, many of us have experienced the relapse of a loved one from a period of sobriety, sometimes short, sometimes long and full of recovery.<br> How did and how do we respond and react when a loved one relapses?<br> What is our understanding of relapse? It is often a process in which picking up the drink or drug is the last stage.<br> How can we support ourselves and our loved ones in relapse?<br> And, sometimes, we relapse back to our old behavior. What is an “Al-Anon relapse”?<br> Have you had one? What was it like, and how did you get out of it?
