The following are signs that recovery is starting to work:
- Experts say that you can sense a person's genuine recovery in under a minute. It hits you like a warm breeze. You just want to go hug them with a big smile. You WANT to talk with them and be around them. A person not in recovery will be controversial, contentious and stressful to be around, making you nervous and uncomfortable.
- Recovery is silent. You will hear a lot less talk and see a lot more walk.
- One of the classic signs that recovery is working is that a person in recovery has surrendered to the disease. He/she won't be resisting or fighting any part of it.
- A person in recovery will be changing their friends. Before recovery an addict has a small exclusive group of friends and family around him/her who enables them and contributes toward their disease. A person in a recovery program will swap these friends and replace them with others who will support recovery efforts by emulating and encouraging all new required behaviors.
- Possible change of environment.
- They will be going to CA and Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
- They will have an CA sponsor and will be in regular contact. If you are close to the addict you will likely see and meet the sponsor.
- Rather than attempting to control everything in their life, a person in recovery will focus only on his/her treatment for addiction.
- You will not see a PR effort. Personal PR is what addicts do.
- You will not see spin control.
- A person in recovery is genuinely grateful to those who helped them get into recovery. They will shun those who enabled them, but will embrace those who directly confronted the disease.
- They will be humble and won't stumble.
- They will stay away from previous hotspots, bars, drug dens, pharmacies, etc. that were associated with pre-recovery behaviors.
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