Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:54 am
You can’t beat yourself up over this smithjm. Even if it was a complete relapse, whipping yourself is really counter-productive to your recovery. By whipping ourselves every time we stumble, we completely ignore the lesson to be learned.
That being said this is serious, and it needs to be addressed for the future. If I did what you did, I’d consider myself to have lapsed into addiction, for sure. It really needs to be watched too, because when Suboxone is abused, it can really undermine Suboxone’s potential as an effective recovery tool. We can come to deny ourselves of an opportunity to get real recovery. As an analogy, consider a hammer. People who use it to build great structures see it as a useful tool. But the people that beat themselves over the head with it, only associate it with pain. I don’t want you to be one of the ones who ditches Suboxone because it didn’t work out.
So… don’t beat yourself up with a hammer! And put that whip away. 
