Posts Tagged ‘dual diagnosis’
Recovery from Gambling Addiction | Catherine Townsend-Lyon
“Now that gambling addiction is currently the #1 addiction with the highest suicide rate than any other and over 16 million problem gamblers in just the US alone, I want to share some of my story and devastation in my life due to this cunning addiction,” says Catherine Townsend-Lyon, today’s guest author. Bestselling Kodel Empire…
Read MoreCoOccurring Disorders | Anger | Addiction | Recovery Connection
CoOccurring Disorders and the anger, addiction, and recovery connection is important to understand when assessing how best to help someone treat their addiction and succeed in long-term recovery. Today’s guest author, Joe Koelzer, delves into the complexities of this connection in his article shared below. Joe holds a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the…
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…
Read MoreFrom Depression and Addiction to Survival & Revival – Erika Cormier
Depression and addiction often go hand-in-hand. Today’s guest post by Erika Cormier, author of As the Smoke Clears, a Memoir, is a powerful introduction to the spiral and devastation this combination wrecks in a person’s life and the equally crippling road-block to recovery, “low self-esteem when we enter recovery and an immense burden of shame and…
Read MoreHate My Body
Hate my body | hate my hair | hate my flabby arms | hate my nose … how is it we get these messages so deeply embedded in our thoughts? How is it the headlines still scream for us to change some piece of our appearance for a better life? “Why is it that reporters…
Read MoreDepression and Alcohol Use – Not a Good Combination
Depression and alcohol use is often not a good combination. Both cause changes in the brain, and both can make the other condition worse. Depression and the Alcohol Use Connection Suffering from depression and its accompanying feelings of sadness, loneliness, restlessness and the like is often a reason a person elects to drink in the…
Read MoreMental Illness – What You Need to Know
Mental Illness Awareness Week 2012 is October 7 – 13. Why should each of us individually care? What can we do as individuals? The Significant Statistics Related to Mental Illness An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a…
Read MoreAddiction Treatment – What to Look For
Making sense of addiction treatment (whether its for drugs or alcohol or both or for a co-occurring disorder), which is having both an addiction and a mental illness, is daunting to say the least. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has created a terrific resource to help people determine what they should look for…
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