Language matters. How we define things to ourselves matters. End the stigma.
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Language definitely matters, but personally I think there's a danger in softening it so much that we lose the gravity of the risk. For many including me, a 'return to use' isn't just a clinical cycle, it's a life-threatening emergency. We can end the stigma without stripping the teeth off the truth. Recovery stays real when we keep the language as honest as the struggle. From chronic x-relapser who lost more each time I relapsed and some isn't reversible. Harm reduction and language is so important but do is the reality of what one more can do