Recovery Support Worksheet

Recovery Support Worksheets are recovery tools and techniques designed to help and assist individuals who are on their journey toward healing and personal growth. These worksheets provide a structured way and strategy for individuals in the form of various activities and exercises to explore their emotions, identify patterns, and set achievable goals for recovering mental health. Whether you are a therapist seeking resources for your clients or an individual searching for self-help tools, Recovery Support Worksheets offer practical and effective guidance for personal development and overcoming challenges.

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Take care of yourself and the people around you with these Recovery Support Worksheets!

What is Recovery Support?

For people with drug-use past trauma, recovery is an essential step to help them get better. It will guide them to get back to the path where they can live in a healthier style. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, recovery is a changing transition to improve health and wellness. It also helps people to live their life to their maximum potential. Recovery incorporates diverse approaches and strategies, such as clinical therapy, medications, faith-based techniques, peer and family support, self-care, and more.

Based on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administrations (SAMHSA), recovery has four dimensions health, home, purpose, and community. Health means overcoming and managing the disease and living healthy physically and mentally. Home means that everyone deserves a safe and stable place to live. Purpose means people should have various daily activities that make them feel alive such as having a job, meeting with family, hanging out with friends, and more. Lastly, a relationship means the essential presence of people who can provide aid, like family, friends, spouses, siblings, and more. Besides the four dimensions, recovery has five key concepts: hope, support, personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and education. 

Why is Substance Abuse Dangerous?

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse is when someone uses drugs in an excessive way. This act can cause danger to the person themselves or the people around them. It can also mean the use of illegal drugs. Substance abuse is dangerous as it can affect the person to ruin their health, social life work or school, and relationship with their loved ones.

There are some prevalent substances that people often use in illegal ways, such as tobacco, alcohol, prescription, opioids, stimulants, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and more. A person can suffer from substance abuse because of many reasons.

It can be because of genetic propensity, the influence of the environment, mental issues (stress, anxiety, trauma), social pressures, and more. Hence, we should be careful in keeping ourselves and other people around us safe. 

What is the Explanation of Relapse?

In recovery, it is normal for a person to experience a relapse. According to the National Cancer Institute, relapse is the return of the disease symptoms while the patient recovers. In the case of people with past substance addiction, it means an event where they have a strong urge to consume drugs again.

Some people thought it was a sign that the person did not have a firm will to heal. However, relapse is a good sign in the recovery process. When someone has a relapse, try to examine the triggers to avoid them in future occasions.

Most of the time, this reversion does not come suddenly, as they have had symptoms before. Hence, people in recovery or with an acquaintance in recovery should be aware. There are some reasons why someone can experience relapse:

• The "It will be my last time to use this, and I will be fine next." belief came up in people's brains.
• There are stressful events at work, school, family, relationships and more.
• There is a hidden physical or emotional pain that makes life difficult.
• Surrounded by people who are still consuming drugs.

How to Prevent Relapse?

Relapse can happen anytime without anyone realizing it. There are various triggers for relapse, such as boredom, stress and anxiety, financial issues, relationship or family problems, particular smells, and more. The recovery process from the substance can be challenging for some people. Hence, a strong will and supportive friends or families are needed. There are some strategies to prevent relapse, as below:

• Have proper self-care by eating healthy meals, getting enough sleep, and exercising.
• Identify the HALT (hungry, angry, lonely, and tired) signs and remind yourself that it will pass.
• Do a meditation.
• Know and understand the triggers.
• Join a support group to develop motivation and surround yourself with people with similar goals.
• Practice deep breathing therapy to calm yourself when you feel the surge of relapse is coming.
• Make an emergency contact list in case something unwanted happens. Make sure to let the people know before you put their number.
• Visit and ask for professional help. 

How to Help People Who Suffer from Substance Abuse?

Witnessing your loved ones struggling with drugs is not a pleasant experience. Our hearts will ache so much while looking at them. It is better for us to prevent the worst from happening, however, life can be unpredictable. Hence, below is a list of how you can deal with a person who suffers from substance abuse:

• Learn various things related to the illegal use of substances.
• Ask and encourage the patient to join a support group.
• Accompany them to get counseling from professionals.
• Do not fall when they beg you to let them use substances again! Give them motivation and encouragement.
• Recovery can take a long time, so do not rush them!

The Recovery Support Worksheets are a set of worksheets packed with various activities that act as recovery tools and techniques. Through these worksheets, people can make a healing goal setting and action planning to recover, as a medium for self-reflection and self-assessment, and even as coping strategies and stress management.

Using these worksheets is the start of building healthy habits and routines which will develop a positive mindset and self-talk.