Coping Skills/Treatment
This daily practice involves staying in the moment, focusing thoughts on counting breaths and relaxing, benefits include increased focus, healing the brain and increased energy.
What is meditation?
Some symptoms of this disorder include sadness, like of motivation, isolation, tired and lethargic.
What is depression?
This phenomenon describes a situation when a person is diagnosed with both a substance use disorder (such as alcohol use disorder) and a mental health disorder (such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, etc.).
What is a Dual Diagnosis or Dual Disorder.
Rates of suicide are almost 4 times higher for this population in the U.S.
What are men?
Why shouldn't you use drugs/alcohol if you have been diagnosed with mental health disorder?
Alcohol or drugs exacerbates underlying mental health symptoms (i.e if you are already depressed you will become more depresesed)
Involves a facilitator and several patients getting together to discus common problems and how they can work on solving them.
What is Group therapy?
This disorder is best understood as a disturbance in the "flight or fight " response and can have physical symptoms like increased heart rate, sweating and hyperventilating.
What is Anxiety?
Dual disorders should be treated separately, True or False?
What is false?
About 22% of suicide deaths in the U.S. involve this substance.
What is alcohol?
Due to risk of seizures or death, if withdrawing from these 2 substances it is best to seek inpatient treatment/detox
Alcohol and Benzodiazepines
This model of therapy involves changing unhelpful cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems.
What Is CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Rates of chemical dependency are high among individuals with this disorder, characterized by manic and depressive episodes.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This Alliance with a 4 letter acronym provides community support and resource's for those with mental illness.
What is NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness.
About 20% of suicide deaths in the U.S. have this substance present.
What are opiates?
After smoking marijuana, how long is a person's driving ability affected?
5-7 hours
A plan that can be used to help prevent reoccurrence of both addiction and mental health symptoms.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
Some of the symptoms of this disorder include, hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech or behavior, and chemical use can increase these symptoms.
What is Schizophrenia?
What % of the people in the United States struggle wit a Dual Diagnosis?
What is 45 %, people with mental health issues are twice as likely to suffer from a substance use disorder.
About 10.2% of suicide deaths in the U.S. have this substance present.
What is marijuana?
______ _______ is the leading cause in substance abuse deaths
Unintentional overdose
This is the current recommended path for treating Dual Disorders, encompassing professionals from mental and addiction medicine.
What is Integrated Treatment?
This relatively rare condition where individuals are bothered by recurrent, persistent, and involuntary thoughts, images or ideas that are perceived as unpleasant or repugnant.
What is OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
This group is an independent, nonprofessional, Twelve Step, self-help membership organization for people with a dual diagnosis, who's goal is to help men and women who are chemically dependent and are also affected by an emotional or psychiatric illness.
What is DRA, Dual Recovery Anonymous?
About 4.6% of suicide deaths in the U.S. have this substance present.
What is cocaine?
An individual who has only a few drinks each week cannot be an alcoholic.
False. People who depend on alcohol, or whose ability to function in daily life is impaired by alcoholic, suffer a disease.