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Table 16 Example paraphrased posts discussing positive and negative impacts of focusing of career during addiction recovery

From: Analysis of associations between emotions and activities of drug users and their addiction recovery tendencies from social media posts using structural equation modeling

I can’t believe I relapsed again. My job as a selling cars causes me so much stress. I can feel my customers hating me when I talk to them. I have to work extremely hard to earn and it’s exhausting. I have to sell cars to earn and when I don’t I go straight back to cocaine

 

Hey everyone. How do you guys handle a high pressure career in recovery, particularly early recovery. I’ve seen fellow redditors who are in the corporate grind. I work a Wall Street job, with unpredictable and stressful hours. I am 10 days clean now, but the timing and pressure keeps on triggering me to use again. If anyone has any experience they can share, would be much appreciated. It’s an extremely well paying job and I don’t want to just walk away from it. Thanks guys

 

Tomorrow will be day 10 from snorting dope and honestly it’s been great! I also got a 2nd full time job at night last month so which keeps me busy and helps me sustain myself. Feels great to have some money for once! I don't know why but this feels like the time it will actually work out

 

I cleaned up about 3 years ago entirely on my own will power. I found my calling—my dream job. It helped me stay busy and get over my cravings. The enjoyment I felt moving forward in my career was so much more enthralling than getting high off any other drug

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