What does relapse stand for?
1. A relapse (or multiple relapses) is one part of recovering from alcohol and other drug dependence and can often be a feature of the recovery. 2. A relapse happens when a person stops maintaining their goal of reducing or avoiding use of alcohol or other drugs and returns to their previous levels of use.
What is an example of relapse?
A relapse refers to a return of alcohol or other drug use, or gambling, which someone has previously managed to control or quit completely. In a relapse the use of alcohol or other drugs or gambling goes back to previous levels of use, or close to this. For example: June has been abstinent from alcohol for three weeks.
What is a another word for relapse?
synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress. type of: regress, retrovert, return, revert, turn back. go back to a previous state. a failure to maintain a higher state. synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapsing, reversion, reverting.
What is relapse in relationship?
Relapsing, that is, giving in to withdrawal, is another way to avoid the fear of the unknown, namely life without your ex. It's your way of staving off the pain of acknowledging that the relationship is no longer viable.
What is relapse in psychology?
listen (REE-laps) The return of a disease or the signs and symptoms of a disease after a period of improvement. Relapse also refers to returning to the use of an addictive substance or behavior, such as cigarette smoking.
What does re lapse mean?
re·lapse | \ ri-ˈlaps , ˈrē-ˌlaps \. (Entry 1 of 2) 1 : the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding. 2 : a recurrence of symptoms of a disease after a period of improvement.
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Get a Relapse mug for your brother-in-law Georges. To fall back or deteriorate into a former state, especially after significant recovery or improvement. Just days after making a recovery from his overdose, John began to relapse.