Managing alcoholism in the new work from home culture presents unique challenges
The pandemic was hard on everyone, but for people with addiction the isolation of sheltering in place presents unique challenges. In a recent post on Welcome to the Jungle (one of our favorite blogs), Suntra’s Director of Recovery Services, John Roesch discusses how to manage the isolation of working from home in a post-pandemic world.
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John Roesch, interventionist and director of recovery services at Suntra Modern Recovery, recounts how for some during the pandemic, their drinking just spiraled out of control due to the absence of office norms like having a colleague or boss nearby. He says that for some, it became okay to have that five o’clock post-work drink on their desk earlier and earlier, until it crept into the a.m…
…Ultimately, being in a program of recovery worked wonders for Reagan who remarks that it wasn’t long before she started to see the benefits and an improvement in her performance at work…
…“I was so much more clear-headed so I could get so much more done. I was making fewer mistakes. I had to do a lot of contracts, filing paperwork in a certain order, transposing numbers, etc. All these little things,” she says…