Clinical Insights
Authoritative articles and resources to help navigate the complexities of behavioral health.
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10 Most Common High Risk Situations for Ex-Addicts
Destination Hope, a Florida drug rehab, constantly strives to educate clients on relapse prevention strategies that will be useful upon graduating from our treatment programs. While we have found that individuals don’t always encounter the same high risk situations, these are the ten that we have found to be most common and here are some…
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Rohypnol: Club Drug or Date Rape Drug?
Rohypnol, or better known to popular culture by its nickname “roofies,” is illegal in the United States, and yet still manages to make quite the splash in our society. While you’d have to have been living under a rock not to hear stories about the incredibly scary and dangerous date rape drug Rohypnol, you probably…
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How Addictive Behavior Leads to Pathological Lying
When you have an addictive behavior that is illegal or generally frowned upon by society like alcoholism, lying and deceit can become second nature. Addicted individuals don’t just lie to their loved ones; they also perpetually lie to themselves. Lying is actually such a common component of addictive behavior that many experts accept it as…
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Anxiety in Men and Its Hidden Identifying Symptoms
Anxiety in men manifests itself differently than anxiety in women does. For starters, it can often be difficult to diagnose a man as having an anxiety disorder as men are known to often repress their symptoms and therefore aren’t prone to discussing them. Men will often try to soothe their symptoms of anxiety with drugs…
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Bipolar Disorder in Women Commonly Misdiagnosed
Bipolar disorder is one of the hardest psychiatric conditions to diagnose correctly the first time around, and women carry an extra layer of that difficulty. The illness alternates between depressive lows and the elevated, overactive states of mania or hypomania. When a woman walks into a doctor’s office, she’s usually in the depressive phase, describing…
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Residential Treatment at Destination Hope
Residential treatment is a live-in level of care where a woman lives at the facility and receives structured clinical support every day. For mental health conditions that outpatient care hasn’t been able to stabilize, that round-the-clock structure is often what makes recovery possible. At Destination Hope, our women’s residential program treats serious psychiatric conditions as…
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Treatment for Depression (Part 3 of 3)
Depression is treatable, and most people who get the right care feel better. The harder questions are which treatment fits a particular person, and what to do when the first attempt doesn’t hold. This piece walks through the options that have the most evidence behind them, what each one actually does, and where they fit…
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