Supporting a Loved One with Mental Health Challenges
When someone you love struggles with mental health challenges, the impact extends beyond the individual to encompass family members, partners, and close friends. As a support person, you may experience a range of emotions—concern, confusion, frustration, guilt, or helplessness. These feelings are natural, but they don’t need to define your relationship with your loved one […]
Empowering Support: How to Avoid Enabling Mental Health Patients
Discover effective strategies for providing meaningful support to mental health patients without enabling harmful behaviors. Educate yourself about their condition, encourage professional help, and set healthy boundaries to empower their growth.
Understanding the Role of a Codependent Enabler: Breaking Free from Unhealthy Patterns
Discover the concept of a codependent enabler in relationships and its impact on individuals and dynamics. Learn how to break free from this unhealthy pattern and cultivate healthier relationships.
The Family Must Recover Before the Addict Can
Families play a significant role in the circle of addiction. That, unfortunately, means that while families are critical to end destructive behavior and support long-term recovery, they may also be partially to blame for the addiction the first place. We now know that addiction manifests from a combination of genetics and environmental factors. Of […]
Childhood Issues – Causes and Consequences of Addiction
Family and addiction are often difficult topics to discuss. Addiction doesn’t just hurt those abusing, it can seriously affect everyone around them, especially their children. One of the long-term effects of growing up in a home where addiction and substance abuse are present is trauma- specifically, familial trauma. This trauma affects everyone differently and to varying […]
How Behavioral Therapy Benefits Addicts & Their Families
Addiction often has roots in dysfunctional relationships and communication within the family unit. Because of the complex network of relationships and interactions, family therapy is an important part of treatment. We know that often, substance abuse is the visible manifestation of a more complex, deeper cause and that is why Destination Hope specializes in family […]
Family Support During Recovery
Addiction does not just affect the person who is in recovery. This affliction can be thought of as a family disease because it directly impacts everyone in the patient’s inner circle. This is just one of the many reasons family support during recovery is essential for everyone involved. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental […]
Does My Daughter Need an Intervention?
Addiction can produce profound changes in appearance and behavior in an individual. Families of women who are addicted may feel that they no longer know or understand the person to whom they were once so close. There may be frustration about getting them to stop their substance abuse and fears about how it will end. […]
How Addiction Affects Children
The amount of research available on addiction is staggering, so much so that we now know how addiction affects children. If you’re a parent who is struggling with addiction, one of the most difficult aspects of recovery may be facing the effects of your substance abuse on your children. Addiction impacts the whole family, and […]
Depression and Addiction: What You Need to Know As a Spouse
Depression and addiction is a common combination for a dual diagnosis. Learn more about what it means to have both depression and addiction, how depression and addiction are treated and how you may support your spouse in his efforts to get recovered. Depression and Addiction: A Frequent Dual Diagnosis A dual diagnosis is when a […]