If you or a loved one is living with co-occurring addiction and mental health disorders that are affecting your life, The Recovery Village can help. Individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders can receive comprehensive treatment from one of the facilities located across ...
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Co-occurring disorders are complex, as there are many factors that overlap between both mental illness and substance abuse disorders. In some cases, one disorder may be much more severe than the other, often masking an underlying issue that is not as apparent. This may lead to diagnosis and ...
What is mental health? What are the components of mental health? What is the most common substance abuse disorder? What causes dissociative personality disorder? What are the dangers of substance abuse disorder? What is the relationship between substance use and co-occurring disorders? W...
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For people with severe symptoms or co-occurring mental health conditions (such as depression and anxiety),OCD medicationcombined with ERP can be an effective treatment plan. SSRI antidepressants likefluoxetine (Prozac)andsertraline (Zoloft)are the most common medications used in OCD treatment, but cer...
Response prevention is when you deliberately refrain from engaging in compulsive behaviors that you typically would do to reduce distress from obsessions or prevent something awful from occurring. “Response prevention—the ‘meat and potatoes’ part of ERP—is where you learn to behave your way out...
Although there are no medications that are specifically used to treat eating disorders, medications are often used to treat co-occurring conditions, such as anxiety and depression, as these frequently occur in people with eating disorders.
Alongside functional impairments, RTT is associated with co-occurring conditions including epilepsy, poor growth and other gastrointestinal problems, autonomic dysfunction, sleep difficulties and scoliosis [6, 5, 7]. Variation in clinical presentation of functional abilities and co-occurring conditions is ...
While this may make sense from a statistical or even theoretical point of view, it does not necessarily make sense from a practical perspective given the commonality of co-occurring depression and anxiety in EDs [76, 77], and controlling for it may take away an important part of the ED ...