1.
Do you feel you have a lack of personal confidence to remain clean/sober or abstinent?
2.
Are you in denial?
3.
Do you find yourself trying to convince yourself or others that you will never ever drink or use again?
4.
Do you start imposing recovery on other people?
5.
Do you become defensive when talking about your problem in recovery?
6.
Have compulsive behaviors appeared, or have you adopted a non-structured lifestyle?
7.
Do you over-react, or are impulsive behaviors beginning to appear?
8.
Are you experiencing periods of loneliness?
9.
Have you begun to focus on one certain area in your life, and are you unwilling to shift your focus? (TUNNEL VISION)
10.
Are you experiencing periods of minor depression?
11.
Are you experiencing a loss in the ability to plan constructively where attention to details lessen and wishful thinking begins?
12.
Are your plans beginning to fail?
13.
Do you find yourself daydreaming more often and is the "if only" syndrome entering into your daily routine?
14.
Do you feel that nothing can be solved?
15.
Are you vocalizing the immature wish to be happy, while feeling that you do not know what happiness is?
16.
Are you experiencing periods of confusion?
17.
Are you behaving irrationally with friends and family?
18.
Are you easily angered?
19.
Do you have irregular eating habits?
20.
Do you feel you have an inability to concentrate, feel full of anxiety, or have feelings of being trapped?
21.
Has there been a progressive loss of daily structure?
22.
Are you experiencing periods of deep depression?
23.
Have you had increasingly irregular attendance at recovery meetings?
24.
Have you developed an "I do not care" attitude?
25.
Are you openly rejecting help?
26.
Are you becoming dissatisfied with life?
27.
Do you have feelings of powerlessness and helplessness?
28.
Do you spend time wallowing in self pity?
29.
Are you having thoughts of social drinking/using?
30.
Are you experiencing conscious lying?
31.
Do you have a complete loss of self-confidence?
32.
Are you harboring unreasonable resentments?
33.
Have you discontinued attendance at Recovery Meetings altogether?("Developed an I do not need them attitude")
34.
Do you feel overwhelming loneliness, frustration, anger and tension?
35.
Have you started "controlled" drinking and using?
36.
Are you feeling a loss of control?
