Dual Diagnosis Treatment Programs Co Occurring Disorder Program

Dual Diagnosis and Treatment For Co-Occurring Disorders
One of the reasons Hope and Serenity is different from most other addiction treatment programs, is that we offer dual diagnosis and treatment for co-occurring disorders. What this means is that we at Hope and Serenity consider addiction to be a symptom of an underlying problem, rather than the problem itself. That is, people try drugs or alcohol due to peer pressure or out of curiosity. They become addicted due to depression, which is the underlying cause of addiction in general, regardless of the "disease concept". People who are seriously addicted display major symptoms of depression, which causes them to "need" the substance they've come to depend on. Therefore, if an addiction treatment program treats only the addiction, then the depression continues to exist as the underlying issue and will resurface, making relapse inevitable.

Dual Diagnosis or Cooccurring Disorder Programs

Dual Diagnosis and Depression Means Relapse
Depression is the leading cause of relapse for all addictions, including workaholics, gambling addiction, sex and love addiction eating disorders and so forth. The odds in favor of any addict recovering long-term are so low to begin with, that unless a dual diagnosis addiction treatment client is treated for his underlying depression, the odds against any success becomes astronomical.

Depression has been described as feeling awful and not knowing why. Sadness, by comparison, is feeling bad, but understanding why, and so it passes.

Major symptoms of depression are as follows:

Anhedonia or an inability to experience pleasure from things which most people experience pleasure.
Eating Disturbance - Eating too much, too little, too frequently or infrequently, anorexia or bulimia.
Sleeping Disturbance - Lying awake for more than fifteen minutes, waking up more than once per night, etc.
Decreased Energy
Psychomotor - The world or your thoughts seem speeded up or slowed down.
Difficulties concentrating or thinking
Feelings of guilt or worthlessness
Thoughts of suicide - Or attempts, or wishing you would not wake up the next day.
Paranoia, delusions or hallucinations

Hope and Serenity Dual Diagnosis and Treatment For Co-Occurring Disorder Center beleives that these symptoms must be relieved or eliminated if the person is to remain clean and sober after completing his or her addiction treatment program. Depression is often anger turned inside, so the goal of our dual diagnosis addiction treatment program is to turn the depression back into anger, then safely releasing the anger so that it can be dealt with, which effectively ends the depression. We have a staff of highly skilled therapists trained in dealing with depression, so the underlying cause of addiction is eliminated.

Co-occurring Disorder Treatment

Dual Diagnosis and Treatment For Co-Occurring Disorders - What's Love Got To Do With It?
Happiness is the cure for addictions. Giving and receiving love is the key to happiness. This concept is the main reason for Hope and Serenity's success in treating addiction by addressing the underlying cause of the problem. This simple word "LOVE" that is as old as time itself, is so overused in today's society that it get's equated with sex, control, abuse, and so forth. Our dual diagnosis addiction treatment staff was hired first, for their ability to show LOVE for others and secondly, for their qualifications as therapists (also extremely high). LOVE is the ability to understand and empathize with another human being and their problems. "Do unto others what you wish to receive yourself." This is the guideline for our dual diagnosis treatment staff and it is also the lesson we desire to teach to our clients. It is not simply an old Christian doctrine, but one of the great doctrines of all of the religions of the world. Hope and Serenity Dual Diagnosis and Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders Center takes this doctrine very seriously. You'll feel it from the time you meet our dual diagnosis treatment program staff, to the time you leave our facility and as you carry it with you back into the mainstream of society.