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BILL: In my drinking days, I had one friend
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BILL: So recovery begins when you come to see that this secret friend is not your friend,
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DR. DAVE: The first step is find the kind of intervention services that can help the addict up on and quickly deleted it.
see the irrationality of using a chemical to weather every bump in life’s road.

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BILL: And the second step is to give up the false notion that what psychologists call '"life
stressors," are something to be feared.
The most notorious
DR. DAVE: New challenges, satisfying and uncomfortable alike, cause life stress that Twitt er moment s of 2010
requires new choices, decisions and growth. We never hear about what is called Demi Moore tweeting of pics
“eustress” - the exhilarating process of positive growth. It is the unpleasant cousin, herself in a bikini was a
“distress,” that gives the whole idea of stressful life changes a bad rap. milestone in stupidity.
BILL: Are you simply saying stress can be good or bad?

DR. DAVE: Depending on how you deal with it. One solid piece of health research is the Mom, daughter accused of
Stress Test created by Holmes and Rahe. It compares what is going on in your life to molesting same teen boy
levels of stress that cause health problems. for 3 y ears
Police say the pair did it without
BILL: I assume that means the potential for relapse?
knowing about each other’s
DR. DAVE: Exactly! The scale totals up all the stressors, no matter whether it comes relationship with him.
from good or bad events in your life, to see if you are getting towards overload.
BILL: I took the online self-scoring version of the Holmes and Rahe. Now I see why you
addiction specialists say to not make any major decisions in your first year of sobriety!
Just changes in work hours or family relationships or health, good or bad, give you
something like 25 points of stress. Get married to the person of your dreams, and you
get hit with 50 points of stress!

DR. DAVE: And even successfully graduating from rehab is worth 28 points of stress.
Which is why going to 90 meetings in the first 90 days of recovery makes sense.
BILL: And marital reconciliation?

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DR. DAVE: That scores you 45 points. Plus, if you stop fighting with your family, you log
another 35 points. Which brings us back to Jeremy London. Change, whether it takes us
up or down, requires the difficulty of adapting to the “new you”.

BILL: For drunks like me, it also helps if you give up the notion that immediate
gratification is not fast enough.
Dr. David Moore is a licensed psychologist and chemical dependency professional who is
a graduate school faculty memb er at Argosy University's Seattle campus. Bill Manville is
a writer and novelist who has b een sob er for over 20 years. His most recent non-fiction
work, "Cool, Hip & Sob er," is availab le at online b ookstores.

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12:04:53 PM Excellent column. I know very well about stressors. A week ago a very star player, a coach tripping an
Apr 30, 2010 dear friend died, unexpectedly. I went to meetings and shared about it opponent...
and I will share about this death until I no longer need to. I am not
putting any time limits on sharing. I did not drink nor do I want to drink.
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