As we continue our section on social health, we are going to now talk about professional relationships. You know what to do with your family and now your friends, but what about those who go to school with are those who you work with? First things first, if there are any co workers or school colleagues that you use cocaine with, you'll need to distance yourself immediately. The best thing to do is to be honest, if you feel like it may have an impact on your professional relationship, you don't have to go into full details, you can just let them know that for health reasons, you're simply taking a break. Now, depending on how long you've been using cocaine, you'll have to understand that this is going to affect your work or school. And the beginning, it may feel like your productivity is going down.

You may feel slower, sluggish, but this is completely normal. The good news though, is that if you follow this course and do a really good job of working through and taking action on all the lectures, and the end, you're going to come out of this feeling much better than you ever did even before you started using cocaine. And this period, it takes, it just depends on everybody, everybody's different. But some of you it might be a week, some might be a month, and maybe a little longer. And I did talk in some previous lectures about when you should see a doctor professional if you feel like it's taking too long. But just think though, once you've gotten through the withdraw, and your body gets back to its baseline self, you're not going to have to stress or wonder when the next time you can use and the stress of coming down or going through withdraw your work or school performance will return to a baseline and then start to increase from there.

It's a good idea, if you can swing it to take time off in the beginning. If you can call in sick or even schedule some time away, that might help get you through that initial 30 day period. If you can't, that's completely understandable. Just make sure that you're taking time for yourself every day, dedicated time to work on your recovery. If people start to notice a change in your performance at work or at school, think of things you can say beforehand. Maybe you just had a personal emergency, or you've just got a lot on your plate, but always followed up with letting them know that you're going to get back on track right away.