Clinical Insights

This is the story of one man we treated. Names and identifying details are withheld, but the clinical picture is his own. He came to us in his mid-30s from the southern United States, carrying three diagnoses that had been feeding each other for years: major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and a substance use…

Stress and trauma rarely show up alone. By the time someone reaches treatment, the trauma has usually picked up company: anxiety, sleep that won’t come, racing thoughts, and often a substance that started as a way to turn the volume down. This is the story of one woman who came to Destination Hope in that…

She came to Destination Hope on her own. Her diagnoses were the reason: bipolar disorder, PTSD, and generalized anxiety disorder, with a history of alcohol and cocaine use that was already in remission when she arrived. She had done recovery work before her admission. What brought her back to a higher level of care wasn’t…

This is one client’s story, shared with care and stripped of identifying details. It shows what happens when a methamphetamine overdose is the surface event and the harder problems sit underneath it: depression, anxiety, trauma, and the physical damage left behind by the drug. He didn’t need a place that would treat the substance use…

By the time she called Destination Hope, she had been holding two lives together for years. In one, she was a licensed clinician with a spotless record at work, the person colleagues leaned on. In the other, she was drinking heavily every night at home, and lately at the office too, while a depression she…