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Accelerated Trauma Therapy – How it helps in Addiction?

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You have received an assessment from your manager; she gave you glowing reviews, positive comments, and a few negative feedbacks. As you walk away back to your work, you often neglect the positive feedback and become hooked on the negative one. Few people may call you a pessimist or overachiever, but it’s pretty normal. Our brain is often wrapped with emotionally charged events, especially negative ones. Though you might not be able to recall what happened before or after that event, you would surely remember the idiocracy associated with it.  This is normal until and unless a negative or traumatic event occurs. As mentioned, the brain magnetizes negative impacts compared to positive ones, and when this happens, you want to avoid it at all possible costs. Our stick memory brings the slightest contextual clues and results in a state of hypervigilance, phobias, panic disorder, Addiction, and depression. If you are experiencing all this, you might consider that you won’t be able to co...

Do my Addiction and Mental Health problems require Residential Care?

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  Do my Addiction and Mental Health problems require Residential Care? It is said to be a co-occurring disease that worsens addiction for some reason! Yes, Addiction and Mental health issues are linked and can heighten the issue one another. Addiction and Mental health issues combined are said to be co-occurring, due to coincide partially or wholly with each other.  Substance Abuse Disorder doesn’t sheer affect the physical aspect of the body, but it pokes even the mental aspect too. The connections between mental illness and substance abuse are complex, it is a chicken or egg analogy, what came first. Sometimes to conceal mental issues people use the substance as self-medication while it is also evident and proven that people trapped in addiction worsen their mental health conditions.  Approximately 8.1 million adults suffer from the co-occurring disorder and more than 40% of it is due to substance use disorder (2015 NSDUH) The overlapping disorder is quite grueling to u...