Posts Tagged ‘Dual Diagnosis | Mental Illness’
Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder and the substance abuse | addiction connection explained. The importance of understanding is, in part, due to the role mental illness plays as one of the five key risk factors for developing an addiction. Often people who suffer from a mental illness, such as borderline personality disorder, also suffer from substance abuse…
Read MoreExercise Helps With Addiction Recovery
Exercise helps with addiction recovery because it helps the brain! Thanks to new brain research, we now understand that exercise actually helps with healing the brain. Given addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease, healing the brain is critical to addiction recovery. So here’s to exercise and here’s how it works! Exercise Helps With…
Read MoreDual Diagnosis – Explanation & Treatment
Dual Diagnosis – what is it and how is it treated? or can it be treated? One of the repeated concerns I hear when giving my presentations is the lack of satisfactory treatment for a dual diagnosis, which occurs when a person is diagnosed with both a mental illness (PTSD, Anxiety, Bipolar, ADHD, schizophrenia) and…
Read MoreSo What is a Dual Diagnosis?
Dual diagnosis – what is it? One of the terms I’ve frequently heard in the various “recovery” circles I’ve encountered over the past five years is “dual diagnosis.” People would talk of their loved one or themselves as having a “dual diagnosis.” I was curious what that was about and learned that a person who…
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