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Success during recovery can be difficult to detect. Friends and family often express concern that they do not know if the help that the person is receiving is working. The process of recovery is extremely difficult to predict. Many people experience considerable setbacks during their recovery and often describe it as a three-steps-forward-two-steps-back process. It is hard to take a back seat and trust that the person is getting better.
 Judging how therapy might be going can be difficult for an outsider and this can be very frustrating. The best judge of these things will often be the person who is recovering, and even they may not be able to express this. What is most important is that someone is receiving help, that their physical health is being monitored and that they have opportunities to discuss the process with someone else IF they chose to. In general, if these three things are happening it is likely that recovery will progress at a speed appropriate to the individual circumstances.
Try to take everyday as it comes. Set backs or relapses can be devastating, but they are a normal part of recovery. Each set back overcome will leave the person stronger and wiser. Recognition of the triggers or causes of set backs can be the only way that a person learns about them and learns to anticipate and prepare for them.
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