About Dual Diagnosis & Dual Disorders
Recent times have seen the much awaited merging of substance abuse
professionals with mental health professionals. Because one issue has
the potential (and many times does), of perpetuating the other issue,
both substance abuse and mental health issues need to be addressed
simultaneously.
Clients with a behavioral disorder coupled with compulsive/obsessive
symptoms are classified as dual diagnostics. Many of these disorders
in the past were seen only by mental health personnel; and the symptoms
were more often than not treated erroneously because addiction was not
considered!
In other words, a patient describing low energy, low self-esteem, sadness
and despair, was expressing all the feelings of depression. And he was
labeled as such. He was a victim of depression. But if drinking and using
were not discussed, if the therapist failed to discover the extent of the
chemical habit, the direction of treatment took the wrong path.
For years, health professionals thought to treat addiction, they had to
find the underlying reason for the addiction. They would treat the
'underlying reason' and figured the addiction would go away.
Sadly, that is not at all the case. A person suffering from an
obsessive/compulsive disorder, such as drinking and using, will surely
return to that behavior after only brief success. Thus, relapse.
Learn more about specific Dual Disorders >>>
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