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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 703936" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>That is so true! For years we were sure that our daughter was borderline. Her behaviors were so typical of Borderline (BPD). However, now that she has been sober for nine months all of those behaviors have disappeared. It was the addiction causing her to act like that.</p><p></p><p>The interventionist we used told us that 80% of mental illnesses disappear when addicts get sober. I didn't believe it at the time but I do now. It is just too hard to separate the mental health issues from the addiction until the addict gets sober. It is also easy for the addict to "blame" a mental illness as an excuse to use drugs. My daughter used her supposed anxiety disorder to say that she needed benzos. She even convinced a psychiatrist that she needed them despite being an addict.</p><p></p><p>Now that she is sober, her anxiety has disappeared. She says herself that it was rebound anxiety when she tried to quit benzos that convinced her that she needed benzos. Once she finally stayed sober long enough for the residual rebound to wear off, she found that she doesn't need them anymore.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 703936, member: 1967"] That is so true! For years we were sure that our daughter was borderline. Her behaviors were so typical of Borderline (BPD). However, now that she has been sober for nine months all of those behaviors have disappeared. It was the addiction causing her to act like that. The interventionist we used told us that 80% of mental illnesses disappear when addicts get sober. I didn't believe it at the time but I do now. It is just too hard to separate the mental health issues from the addiction until the addict gets sober. It is also easy for the addict to "blame" a mental illness as an excuse to use drugs. My daughter used her supposed anxiety disorder to say that she needed benzos. She even convinced a psychiatrist that she needed them despite being an addict. Now that she is sober, her anxiety has disappeared. She says herself that it was rebound anxiety when she tried to quit benzos that convinced her that she needed benzos. Once she finally stayed sober long enough for the residual rebound to wear off, she found that she doesn't need them anymore. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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