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How Trauma Recovery Can Threaten Hard-Won Sobriety

I have been clean from drugs for two years but sometimes the pain is so intense I think about using just to make it stop

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Processing traumatic material can temporarily intensify emotional pain beyond current coping capacity, creating relapse risk in addiction recovery.

Ideas that help explain it
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