Normally when a person give up an addiction, they tend to give up not only the substance, but their family, confidants, companion, and comfort. Automatically a person may encounter a feelings of loss, and although the decision to become sober may be a good thing, feeling loss and sadness cause the person to experience deep depression that seems to occupy the loneliness a person may feel. Individuals need to become aware of these feeling and confront them before it causes hinder to their sobriety. Moving through loss and grief is a process. Meanwhile engage may have a negative effect if the individual choses to avoid or deny the feeling of loss, instead of denying the process, to engage in a healthy way bring effective closure to a person’s
