Do You Know of Anyone Who Has Been Successfully Treated for Dual-Diagnosis?
Question by GiggleFairy: Do you know of anyone who has been successfully treated for dual-diagnosis?
(If you have to ask what dual-diagnosis is, chances are you shouldn’t attempt to answer this question. Dual-Diagnosis IS the name of the condition itself.)
Do you know of anyone who has been successfully treated for dual-diagnosis? What was this person like before the dual-diagnosis was made, eg, relapses, jail time, etc.??? Did the dual-diagnosis make recovery better/easier versus treating only the addiction?
Best answer:
Answer by evanesce
Yes, I have been healed from many problems. I went to a very experienced doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She was able to revive areas of my body that had been affected by all the partying and by all the emotions from things I’d been through that I didn’t want to face. Her treatment included acupuncture and herbs. It made me feel so relaxed and peaceful that I could quickly see situations that were not good for me. When energy surges into the prefrontal cortex, people feel safe. When I feel safe, I am drawn to situations where I will be safe. After going to acupuncture, I felt so good that I didn’t need to do the things I used to do to try to feel good. When I did do them after awhile, they actually began to make me feel worse — more lost and confused — because acupuncture had made me feel so good. It is amazing. It is enlightening. Before acupuncture I was in dangerous situations around people that I began to get away from as soon as I’d gone to acupuncture.
Pharmaceuticals did not help me. They made me worse. You can read about the problems with them at www.breggin.com. It is said that Western medicine looks at things from the outside. It works quickly to treat symptoms, so you feel better. Chinese medicine looks at things from the inside. It heals the problem from the root, so it takes longer.
My doctor doesn’t even tell me about diagnoses. She just says things that put my mind on a positive path where I want to go.
Answer by skanktale
QUOTE FROM ENCYCLOPEDIA…
“Dual Diagnosis” refers to those who have been diagnosed with major mental health disorders and alcohol or substance addictions at the same time.
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Not many people will be able to help you as this is many conditions you are talking about. You haven’t specified what major mental illness with either drug addition or whether it’s with alcohol. There are many major mental illnesses and these illnesses are all different and require different medication with each having a different response and prognosis.
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