Posts Tagged ‘co-occurring disorders treatment’
How to Find a Therapist – National Mental Health Awareness Month
How to find a therapist is a frequent question readers ask when they call. They know they or a loved one needs help with something “bad” that happened to them in childhood, a mental illness, or a substance use disorder — sometimes all three. But they are at a loss for how to find someone…
Read MoreBreakingTheCycles.com 10 Year Anniversary | Sharing Favorite Posts
BreakingTheCycles.com 10 year anniversary — its hard for me to believe it’s already been 10 years! I started BreakingTheCycles.com in 2008 to provide education, prevention and intervention information and services rooted in 21st Century brain science for a range of addiction-related concerns, including: substance abuse, mental illness, addiction* as a brain disease, secondhand drinking, toxic stress,…
Read MoreDual Diagnosis Treatment – A System Broken | Guest Author Athena Kay
In a previous post, Addiction is Not a Choice | a Mom and Dad Share Their Daughter’s Story, we learned a great deal of what happened to Athena Kay, a pseudonym Cindy and Nick K’s daughter adopted following her rape at age 15 and subsequent PTSD, rape trauma syndrome, dissociative behaviors, depression, flashbacks, panic attacks…
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