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Your Guide to In-Network Cigna Rehab Centers
Welcome to the First Step If you’re reading this, you’re already on the path to recovery. It’s a tough journey, but you don’t have to walk it alone. At 12…
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Navigating Relationships in Recovery
Individuals seeking recovery from substance use disorder (SUD) and co-occurring mental health disorders often face a plethora of challenges on their healing journeys. One of these challenges involves establishing reliable social support. When a person actively engages with alcohol or other drugs, they may unintentionally hurt their friends, family, and other loved ones. Navigating relationships…
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What Are the Negative Health Effects of Misusing Opioids?
Patients every day are prescribed narcotics by professionals in healthcare settings to treat chronic or severe pain. This is beneficial for those who need it most, but unfortunately, it can backfire. It is quite common for some patients to then misuse the opioids they’ve been prescribed. In some cases, they may even sell their prescription…
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The Different Types of Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
Is your loved one exhibiting problematic warning signs of substance abuse or substance use disorder (SUD)? If this is the case, you may feel overwhelmed by your lack of knowledge or personal experience with SUD. Even if this is true, you don’t need to worry. Above all, understand that SUD is a treatable mental health…
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Why Is Self-Medicating With Alcohol Dangerous for Patients With Bipolar Disorder?
Living with bipolar disorder can come with many challenges. One day an individual can wake up on top of the world! Sometimes even feeling like a superstar. Feeling like somebody highly important with a major increase in confidence. Tremendously full of euphoric thoughts. So much, so that the individual may even feel invincible. Ready to…
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The Value of Breathwork for Addiction Recovery
If you are in early recovery from addiction, it is vital that you employ the numerous healing resources at your disposal. Although you may find many of these resources in treatment, you can discover others in the comfort of your own home. There is one healing resource that you take with you everywhere you go:…
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Why Is Binge Drinking Detrimental for Clients With Depression?
Not everybody lives a life with mental stability. At any point, things can take a turn for the worse. Stressful life events, faulty mood regulation, and even genetics can play a factor in the development of depression. Depression is a major mood disorder that can negatively impact an individual’s life. Severe symptoms such as extreme…
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Why Individualized Treatment Is Crucial for Dual Diagnoses
When a person has substance use disorder (SUD), they experience a greater risk of developing a co-occurring mental health disorder. Similarly, when a person has a mental health disorder, they experience a greater risk of developing co-occurring SUD. When a mental health disorder exists alongside SUD, the conditions are referred to as co-occurring disorders or…
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What Are The Most Effective Ways to Treat Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Discover effective treatment options for histrionic personality disorder, including therapy and holistic approaches that help manage emotional regulation, improve relationships, and support long-term mental health recovery.
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Challenging the Pressures of Substance Use in College
Young adulthood can be an incredibly exciting time. As adolescents near the end of their teenage years, they will find themselves in their final days of high school, looking forward to a new life of freedom. During this time, many adolescents will consider attending college, which can be an exhilarating prospect. However, this period of life…
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How is Dysthymic Disorder Connected to Depression?
There may come a time when an individual will feel deeply saddened. Life changes, a traumatic experience, or even genetic factors may trigger a shift in one’s mood. This can happen either during an individual’s childhood or at any point in one’s adulthood. Sometimes a person will not know why they feel emotionally distressed. Having…
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Is My Anxiety Abnormal? Understanding Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety is a normal response to situations and circumstances that feel threatening, triggering, or otherwise uncomfortable. Contrary to what you may believe, there is a clear line that separates normal anxiety from abnormal anxiety. If you are reading this, you may suspect that your anxiety is beyond what would be considered normal. Becoming familiar with…
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Why Do Some People With Social Anxiety Lean Toward Drugs and Alcohol?
Going out on the town with others can make a person either feel excited or incredibly nervous. Some people, especially those with more extroverted personalities, are perfectly comfortable in social settings. Others, who may have more introverted personalities, may dread those occasions. Individuals with social anxiety, however, may go as far as to avoid special…
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The Benefits of PHP
Watching a loved one experience mental health struggles can be extremely saddening. Seeing a loved one struggle with the complex effects of co-occurring disorders can bring about more unique challenges. It can be beneficial for friends and family to learn about effective treatment options for substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health disorders. Learning about…
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What Is Prescription Drug Misuse and Abuse?
Over the last decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of medications being prescribed by doctors to treat both mental and physical health conditions. Along with this rise, however, there have also been increases in prescription drug misuse, abuse, and addiction. Prescription drug abuse can lead to a range of physical, mental,…
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Is Participating in Therapy Enough to Achieve Lasting Sobriety?
Professional treatment is often required for recovery from substance use disorder (SUD). This is because substance abuse interferes with an individual’s ability to think clearly and to remain accountable for lasting sobriety. As if making the decision to begin therapy isn’t hard enough, it is important to recognize whether or not therapy alone can foster…
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What Benefits Can Nature Bring to Recovery?
Constant improvements in modern technology have affected all of us in more ways than we will ever realize. For example, nowadays, adolescents and young adults often spend more time on social media than they engage in their interpersonal relationships in person. Another consequence of the rise in technology is the inherent disconnection of people from…
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