How do you know if you are experiencing symptoms of an addiction or someone you care about is showing signs of addiction?
Warning Signs
- Isolation and social withdrawal
- Tremors (shaking or trembling) or
- Lethargy or slurred or significantly slowed reaction times
- Absenteeism and tardiness
- Unusual or significant financial difficulties
- Secrecy about accountability for spending or free time
- Mood swings, irritability, or increased periods of depression or anger
- Using alcohol or conducting behavior done in secrecy at inappropriate times and at inappropriate places.
Relapse Warning Signs
- Apprehension About Well-being
- Denial
- Adamant commitment to sobriety
- Compulsive Attempts to impose sobriety on others
- Defensiveness
- Compulsive behavior
- Impulsive behavior
- Tendencies towards loneliness
- Tunnel vision
- Minor depression
- Loss of constructive planning
- Plans begin to fail
- Idle daydreaming and wishful thinking
- Feeling that nothing can be solved
- Immature wish to be happy
- Periods of confusion
- Irritation with friends
- Easily angered
- Irregular eating habits
- Listlessness
- Irregular sleeping habits
- Progressive Loss of daily structure
- Periods of deep depression
- Irregular attendance at Treatment and/or support meetings
- Development of the “I Don’t Care” attitude
- Open rejection of help
- Dissatisfaction with life
- Feelings of powerlessness and helplessness
- Self-pity
- Thoughts of social drinking
- Conscious lying
- Complete loss of self-confidence
- Unreasonable resentments
- Discontinuing all treatments
- Overwhelming loneliness, frustration, anger and tension
- Start of controlled drinking
- Loss of control
If you are experiencing the above noted symptoms, contact the office for an evaluation.