Prosperity Wellness Center: What We Treat
Addiction is cruel. Its repetitive behaviors slowly eat away at everything in your life, ruining relationships, opportunities, and more. When it’s accompanied by a co-occurring condition like depression, anxiety, or another mental disorder, it can feel truly helpless.
It isn’t. With the right help, you can leave the destructive patterns of addiction behind, treat any co-occurring disorders that are also troubling you, and live the life you truly deserve.
Prosperity Wellness Center, part of the Discovery Addiction Centers family, uses measurement-based, effective methods to treat substance use disorder and co-occurring conditions.
What Is Substance Use Disorder?
Substance use disorder (SUD) is a complex disease that involves the repeated use of drugs despite the problems it causes. Continuing to use cannabis despite being fired for showing up to work high, or continuing to drink despite multiple DUIs, are just a few of the ways SUDs affect people.
This happens because drugs cause physical changes in the brain, affecting a person’s mental health. Drugs work by causing the nervous system to release dopamine, a powerful neurotransmitter used in the body’s reward system. Eventually, this causes the body to believe it needs drugs to function normally, which drives people to continue using drugs despite the problems they cause.
What Are Co-Occurring Disorders?
Co-occurring disorders, sometimes called dual diagnosis, happen when a mental disorder accompanies a substance use disorder. One doesn’t necessarily cause the other. A person can self-medicate for a condition like depression; substance abuse can cause mental disorders in some cases.
Some common mental disorders that accompany addiction include:
Mood Disorders
These disorders affect the mood and include bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder.
Anxiety Disorder
Panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder cause people to feel extremely anxious and worried, often without good reason.
Trauma Disorders
Resulting from enduring a traumatic event, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the most well-known trauma disorder.
Personality Disorders
Disorders like borderline personality disorder strongly affect how a person sees themselves, others, and their world.
Co-occurring disorders can be very complex. As isolating as they can feel, they’re also surprisingly common – the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimates 21.5 million Americans have this
combination of disorders.
The good news is that co-occurring disorders are treatable. With years of successfully treating addiction and co-occurring disorders, we’ll help you safely explore the roots of your conditions and treat them effectively, helping you live the life you truly deserve.
You Deserve Your Best Life…and it Can Start Now
There’s one more thing to know about substance use and co-occurring disorders: both of them tell you that you’re alone.
You’re not.
With our support, we’ll help you find a real connection with others. You’ll be able to truly understand yourself and your world, learn how to manage your conditions, and recognize when you need help.
It can all start today, too. Reach out to us to learn more.
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