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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 521453"><p>Kathy I can totally relate to your concerns about mental illness and the addiciton issues. It is hard when they have both, although most serious addicts probably do have some of both. When my son was hospitalized back in Sept the hospital really thought he might have a personality disorder (which made a lot of sense). There was a great DBT very intensive program that sounded great for him... but it was going to take a bit to get into it. I was excited about the prospect and he wanted to do it. So they had him in an outpatient program and then he used one night and really crashed and ended up back in the hospital. At that point they would not consider him for anything until he did a 30 day inpaitent substance abuse program... and we started down the current winding twisty path.</p><p></p><p>What I got from that and in reading about dual diagnosis... is it is really hard to diagnose and understand what the mental health issues are while someone is sitll using. That is what makes it so complicated! I think to really deal with the mental health issues they need to first get sober... now it does not make sense to require them to be sober for long before getting help with the mental health stuff... because it is those issues that send them back to the substances. But I think it is somewhat pointless to try and address mental health issues while they are still using.</p><p></p><p>It makes it all very complicated I agree.</p><p></p><p>TL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 521453"] Kathy I can totally relate to your concerns about mental illness and the addiciton issues. It is hard when they have both, although most serious addicts probably do have some of both. When my son was hospitalized back in Sept the hospital really thought he might have a personality disorder (which made a lot of sense). There was a great DBT very intensive program that sounded great for him... but it was going to take a bit to get into it. I was excited about the prospect and he wanted to do it. So they had him in an outpatient program and then he used one night and really crashed and ended up back in the hospital. At that point they would not consider him for anything until he did a 30 day inpaitent substance abuse program... and we started down the current winding twisty path. What I got from that and in reading about dual diagnosis... is it is really hard to diagnose and understand what the mental health issues are while someone is sitll using. That is what makes it so complicated! I think to really deal with the mental health issues they need to first get sober... now it does not make sense to require them to be sober for long before getting help with the mental health stuff... because it is those issues that send them back to the substances. But I think it is somewhat pointless to try and address mental health issues while they are still using. It makes it all very complicated I agree. TL [/QUOTE]
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