Visit Ambrosia Treatment Center website for further information. ambrosiatreatmentcenter.com or call 866-577-6868 My name is Doctor Sal Raichbach, Clinical Director for The Ambrosia Treatment Centers of the Palm Beaches and today I would like to speak about dual diagnosis. There are many names to a dual diagnosis, others call it comorbidity some even mention coexisting. Usually that means is someone who has been identified has a person who is sick from drug or alcohol dependences may have developed or may have had a previous exciting diagnosis of ether depressive disorders, major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, generalizing anxiety disorders, social phobias, somatoform disorders where we actually develop physical symptoms based on the way we are mentally thinking, and personality disorders, narcissistic, histrionic. People who have difficulty disassociating themselves from who they are and what they do. The importance of understanding mental health in substance abuse treatment is that many times the factors that leads people to hide behind a bottle or behind a their drug of choice is the fact that they are suffering mentally. About 20 years ago we termed a person who is suffering from a mental health condition as being mentally ill. That carried a lot of stigma people did not like the idea of being called mentally ill. The first thought that came to peoples minds is when thinking about mentally illness is that they were maybe skitsofrantic. Which is …
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