Why Mental Health and Substance Use Must Be Treated Together
Treating addiction without addressing
mental health is like bailing water from a sinking boat
without fixing the leak. Over half of people
struggling with substance use also have a mental health condition
like depression, anxiety or PTSD. When we only treat one,
the cycle just repeats. Substance use is often a coping mechanism
for untreated pain. Someone may drink to calm anxiety
or use drugs to escape trauma. If treatment
only focuses on stopping the substance, it leaves the root issue untouched
and that pain drives relapse. But when both are treated together,
addressing the mental health condition and supporting recovery,
that’s when lasting healing happens. It’s called integrated care
and the research is clear it works. You don’t have to choose between mental
health and substance use treatment. You deserve care that addresses both. The Partnership to End Addiction has an incredible resource center
with tools, guides and support to help you find integrated
treatment options. Visit Drug Free Dawgs mental Health
to get help for the whole person. Healing happens
when we treat the whole person. You’re not defined by what’s gone wrong. You’re capable of recovery
and your life can move forward.
💙 Learn more from the Partnership to End Addiction → https://drugfree.org/mentalhealth
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Addiction impacts more than the person struggling — it touches entire families.
Through education, compassion, and science-based support, we can help loved ones heal together.
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This was too fast for me 😢 maybe it’s my settings
Está muito rápido e sem legenda para outros idiomas 😢
Are there programs that can help people dealing with their mental health, addiction but also going through medical problems at the same time? I know someone with these problems but they can’t get help because they also need medical care and the programs won’t take them in. And we can’t afford to put them in a program that will take them with all of these concerns
Thank you
You are assuming that there are lots of competent mental health professionals out there that can be readily accessed. 🤔
Thanks for this, I so agree 💯
Wow
I wish i could choose both health insurance and food/bills.
I also wish i could be permanently admitted into a psych hospital without dealing with lifes responsibilities.
Sometimes care and options are really poor.
You made a procrastinating video about chronic suicidal people, get help darling
12 stepping can be life changing.
9 months sober here, and yeah I'm about to start therapy because I clearly need it especially if I don't want to relapse, stay strong out there yall ❤
I hear you but drop the hair routine, because that looks like a straw set without being a straw set
Having a psychic gift is extremely difficult and challenging and if it gets caught up in the mental health system and misunderstood and mistreated and assumed as being a break from reality or in other words a psychosis.
It becomes a set up for being a victim of abuse and assault and the abuser and the assaulterer are considered not guilty because ' apparently' we have delusions and hallucinations and we hear voices in our heads telling us negative comments!!!
ITS CAUSES SPIRITUAL DEATH AND EXTREME BULLYING WHEN WE ARE INAPPROPRIATELY TREATED UNDER A PSYCHOSIS TREATMENT ORDER FOR BEING A GIFTED CLAIRAUDIENT MEDIUM who hears , hears EVERYTHING but I don't think voices are a part of the hearing but then again I suppose thoughts can be considered to be a audible memory or awareness that is heard !
It's not good LIVING-DEAD having to hide our true selves away because of fear , fear of people forcing us to take antipsychotic medications that we are not requiring.
The law makes real life hard especial when they give a guilty man a not guilty verdict and script the victims life using grandeur delusional theories and concepts to override the GIFTED CLAIRAUDIENT MEDIUM THAT SHE REALLY IS ..
Oh life , such is life , it is what it is and we're expected to soldier on and find out own way while being subjected to duscrimators scheming and plotting to have us imprisoned for being truthful and real using protective custody and such …it's not fair oh but that's right the adult mental health practitioners tell us THAT LIFE ISN'T FAIR .
They expect us to deny our own truth and die by suicide under their lies.
Also living with ADHD unmedicated will cause one to find a drug that helps ..speed or amphetamine is very helpful and I took 2 dexamphetamine tablets once and I was able to focus my attention on one task , instead of starting 5 and finishing none .
I felt my stomach relax and I didn't even know how tense my stomach was !!
.it's a hard life being a gifted clairaudient medium and having ADHD but due to a criminal offence against me that could not be proven , I have been subjected to lots of bullying and discrimination and alienation and left to read self help books to help myself and I am helped , I have helped myself and now I am bullied for being so strong too !
People wanted their lies about me and my mental health and my whole life to be the only truth allowed , their truth is acceptable apparently, you know they say that I am living as a Psychotic but refuse to accept the medication and they say I am anti mental health.
They are lying and not telling the truth about me.
I am actively present and take full responsibility for my mental wealth and it is wealthy I am healthy wealthy and wise mentally 😊
I have had to help myself ❤
Please do not take this the wrong way there are substance abuse programs out there that are gung-ho on the religious and spiritual aspect of it. And that's why some people are turned off to the concept of drug rehab. It's sad but true
Amen..
30 odd years dry
And still not thirsty but I have to say there were times over ten years ago when those monitoring me tried everything to get me to relapse .
@DrTraceyMarks On point. You are an angelic sorceress when it comes to mental health and substance abuse. I just completed one year alcohol free, still working through the base issues. Shared your wisdom in my treatment group months back. 🙏🌈
Ty. 🙏🏼🫶🏼