Octavia Spencer

It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.

American Actress

Kathy Giusti

Every time I go back to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to wait for my test results, and I wonder if I've relapsed or if I'm doing okay, I don't think about my company. I'm proud of everything we've done, but at the end of the day, it comes back to family. I'm still a wife, a mom, a sister - all of those things.

American Activist

Daniel Goleman

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

American Author

Jack Osbourne

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

English Celebrity

Greg Boyle

Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that.

American Clergyman

Kurt Vile

I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.

American Musician

Daniel Baldwin

What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not be ashamed - has been very important in not relapsing.

American Actor

Sheryl Lee

I have to be very aware of how I manage my health. I still have relapses if I push myself too hard and my immune system can't handle it.

David Sheff

Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.

Steven Adler

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

Relapse is often used negatively to signify a failure to maintain progress.

Negative Connotation

A relapse often implies an unexpected return to negative behavior after improvement.

Unexpected Setback

Discussing a relapse can evoke emotional responses; be sensitive when talking about it.

Emotional Impact

Using 'relapse' implies a personal battle with an issue, often of a chronic nature.

Personal Struggle

Relapsing can be an involuntary action, not a deliberate choice.

Involuntary Action

In medical terms, relapse specifically refers to the return of a disease.

Medical Context

Relapse in a medical setting doesn't always signal defeat; treatment can continue.

Possible Recurrence

Relapse is frequently associated with chronic conditions, where recurrence is common.

Long-term Illnesses

 the mother who never gave up on me, who knew that one day I would come back to her and was willing to wait for me for as long as it took; the doctor who only worked with me for a brief time but who reinforced his belief that recovery was not only possible but inevitable, and during a devastating period of relapse

The voices in my head PIPE...

 I had two advantages as I went into the fight. The first is that I knew that, objectively speaking, I had a nice life, and that if I could only get well, there was something at the other end that was worth living for. And the other was that I had access to good treatment. But I nonetheless emerged and relapsed,

Depression, the secret...

 CBT, meanwhile, is more lasting, with only a 20% relapse rate. The goal of CBT treatment for panic disorder is to help people learn and practice concrete tools to exert physical, and in turn mental, control over the sensations and thoughts associated with a panic attack.

What causes panic...

 excuse me -- contributes to relapse. Studies have shown that people who tend to avoid relapse tend to be people who have broad, reciprocal social relationships where they can be of service to each other, where they can be helpful. Being of service lets people connect.

How isolation fuels...

 And it's got the three main characteristics of tolerance, you need to see them more, and more, and more; withdrawals; and relapse. I've got a girlfriend who's just getting over a terrible love affair. It's been about eight months, she's beginning to feel better.

The brain in love PIPE...

 He relapsed a little bit, they gave him a series of treatments, and he was essentially cured. But of course, having schizophrenia, within a few months, it returned. But they wrote a paper about this, and everybody in the western world began using electricity

Sherwin Nuland: How...

 Hotel where he lived in a bungalow for the next few years he also rented many other rooms for his aids wife in various girlfriends one year I figured he spent eleven million dollars at that hotel imagine at the hotel Hughes relapsed

Mentally-Ill Billionaire...

 trying meth at least once meth addiction is also one of the hardest to treat with a relapse rate worse than cocaine and more than 70 percent of what is used in the u.s. comes from Mexico this much crystal meth which is roughly about

Finding Hidden Meth PIPE...

 And after they stop taking antidepressants, some patients never experience depression again, while others relapse. We now recognize that we don’t know what causes depression, or why anti-depressants work.

How do antidepressants...

 And then there were the invisible, psychological imprints my illness had left the fears of relapse, the unprocessed grief,