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Dual Diagnosis
The term Dual Diagnosis is a term that is often used interchangeably by psychiatrists with the terms co-occurring disorder or co-occurring illnesses that involve a psychiatric diagnosis and a substance abuse diagnosis which may include both drugs and alcohol. A dual diagnosis occurs when an individual is affected by both chemical dependency and an emotional or psychiatric illness. Both illnesses may affect an individual physically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually. Each illness has symptoms that interfere with a person’s ability to function effectively and relate to themselves and others. Not only is the individual affected by two separate illnesses, both illnesses interact with one another. The illnesses may exacerbate each other and each disorder predisposes to relapse in the other disease. At times the symptoms can overlap and even mask each other making diagnosis and treatment more difficult.
A person may sincerely try to recover from one illness and not acknowledge the other. As a person neglects his or her mental illness, that illness may recur. This recurrence may, in turn, lead a person to feel the need to "self-medicate" through drug use. Over time, the lack of progress toward recovery on both fronts may trigger feelings of failure and alienation. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is the damage that occurs to the individual’s self-esteem.
The problem with dual diagnosis is that although a person may have a chemical dependency to drugs and or alcohol it is impossible to correctly diagnose and treat a “mental illness” without definitive proof. There are no blood tests, neurology tests, MRI’s or any other tests available to determine what and if a person has a “mental illness” and psychiatrists way of treating these “illnesses” is with drugs so it contradicts itself completely. A person can quit using street drugs and alcohol but is then going to be medicated by psychiatrists with their “legal” drugs? It completely defies all reasoning and contradicts itself.
The pharmaceutical companies have teamed up with psychiatrists to “make up” disorders and illnesses in order to cash in and make billions of dollars by distributing “legal” drugs to our so called “sick mentally ill” citizens of this country. It is a huge conspiracy fueled by the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industry using mass marketing schemes to generate billions of dollars in revenue and it continues to grow. Every year the psychiatric industry publishes a manual called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) that lists disorders and illnesses and every year there are new ones added to the list in order to continue distributing drugs and raking in huge profits.
Some disorders are legitimate but the majority of them are made up and there is no definitive way of knowing how to effectively treat them, especially if someone is pumped full of drugs, legal or illegal. Dual diagnosis is a made up term by psychiatrists to fool the public into purchasing “legal drugs” supplied by pharmaceutical companies that continue to cash in. If you or someone you love is suffering from chemical dependency please do the research and contact a rehabilitation center that practices drug free therapy? Don’t continue to be a victim of this terrible conspiracy.
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Help
Drug and alcohol abuse has reached an all time high in this nation and continues to climb every year. Addiction rates have soared and the number of people needing help has dramatically increased. Trying to help a family member with a drug or alcohol problem can be very frustrating. If you have ever tried talking with a spouse or child about drug or alcohol abuse, you know how quickly they can get defensive and argumentative. Nothing has more of a negative impact on family than an alcohol or drug abuse problem. When a family member is using drugs or drinking more and more heavily it causes serious friction. They seem to be becoming an alcoholic or drug addict and you know they are headed for some serious consequences, unless they change their behavior.
It is very important not to judge them too harshly as their problem is a medical and mental disorder and condition. They are lost and completely out of touch with reality and in desperate need of some kind of help. You have already approached them about their drug or alcohol use and they immediately got very defensive the moment you mentioned they might have a problem. You've tried talking to them and nothing has changed. Their drug or alcohol use is obvious to everyone except them. You hope things will just get better but statistics show that it’s not likely. It’s time to get them some help and show them there is a way out. They may need an intervention if they are not willing to go to treatment. Interventions do work and taking this proven and effective step towards confronting and addressing the problem is a very powerful tool in getting those struggling with addiction the help they need.
Treatment is simply the therapy done during the process of drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Treatment is both educational and therapeutic. It makes a person aware of the problem and is designed to make the person see how their behavior affects them and other people in their lives. Getting help through the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse has been found to be the most effective and powerful tool in overcoming this life threatening problem.
Getting help through drug and alcohol rehabilitation is the best way to start the process of living a new life free from the use of drugs and alcohol. Many people think they can quit on their own but the reality of the situation is the majority can’t. Rehab starts with finding the right program for that person’s needs. Using and abusing drugs and alcohol usually starts out with just using them for fun, but the fun can turn into a debilitating habit and people get hooked and addicted, needing them just to function and survive. Today, there are millions of Americans addicted to one or more drugs and they desperately need help.
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