Clinical Insights
Authoritative articles and resources to help navigate the complexities of behavioral health.
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Do I Have a Dual Diagnosis?
What’s a dual diagnosis and how do you know if you have one? First, a dual diagnosis is when an addiction and mental illness co-exist in the same person. There isn’t one fixed type of dual diagnosis, because it can refer to any number of combinations, including anxiety and addiction, depression and addiction, bipolar disorder…
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What Will I Talk About in Addiction Counseling?
Addiction counseling is largely made up of psychotherapy, which is a very effective method in treating substance abuse and addiction. Psychotherapy works to find the underlying causes of addiction in order to give you the best tools, answers and strength necessary to fight against addiction and work towards a stable life of recovery. In addiction…
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Substance Abuse Treatment for Women with Children
When a mother is struggling with substance use, the question that stops her from getting help is rarely “Do I need treatment?” It’s “Who watches my kids while I’m gone?” That logistical worry sits on top of a deeper one, the fear that asking for help will be read as proof she’s an unfit parent.…
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Effects of Drug Abuse on Your Joints
Drug abuse can come in many forms, but one common factor is that it harms your health. The effects of drug abuse can be severe and long lasting, depending on the duration of the addiction. We’re going to focus on the way that drug abuse affects the joints of your body, those points of movement…
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Alcohol Treatment Center Admissions: How Do I Get In?
Alcohol treatment center admissions should be straightforward and easy to understand. You can get the help you need for alcohol abuse and addiction quickly and you can get the answers to all of your questions prior to your arrival. This helps you to get ready, physically and mentally, to begin the treatment process.
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Anxiety and Addiction in Women
For many women, anxiety comes first. The racing thoughts, the dread that never quite lifts, the nights spent bracing for a catastrophe that hasn’t happened yet. Substance use often follows, not as a separate problem but as an attempt to quiet a mind that won’t slow down. When the two appear together, they form a…
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Coping with Alcohol Abuse In a Loved One
Alcohol abuse can be difficult for not only the individual suffering from the addiction, but also for the family. It can be very painful and disturbing to watch someone you love suffer from alcohol abuse, especially if you see the pattern of behavior before they do.
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How Can I Help Deal With My Dual Diagnosis?
Coping with dual diagnosis may seem challenging, but there are things you can do to improve your chances for recovery. Dual diagnosis occurs when a person is dealing with an addiction to drugs or alcohol along with a mental health problem. Common combinations are addiction and anxiety, addiction and depression, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder…
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Is Alcohol Rehab for Women Covered By Insurance?
The short answer is yes. Under federal law, most health plans have to cover treatment for alcohol use, and they have to cover the mental health conditions that so often sit underneath it. Cost is one of the most common reasons women who need help put off getting it, and the fear of an impossible…
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Do I Need Mental Health Treatment?
Most people don’t wake up one morning and decide they need help. The question builds slowly. You notice you’re not sleeping, or you’ve stopped answering the phone, or a person you love has gone quiet in a way that scares you. Then comes the harder question: is this bad enough to do something about? According…
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Outpatient Alcohol Treatment & Working Parents
Treatment that lets you keep working and stay home with your kids sounds like the easy option. For a lot of parents, it’s the only realistic one. The harder truth underneath the schedule problem is that drinking rarely travels alone. Anxiety, depression, old trauma, the pressure of holding a household together, these often sit beneath…
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Depression and Alcoholism: How to Get Screened
Depression and heavy drinking tend to travel together, and when they do, each one makes the other harder to treat. A person who has been carrying both for years often can’t tell where the low mood ends and the drinking begins. That’s not a character problem. It’s two clinical conditions feeding each other, and the…
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