Dual Diagnosis Support Group

Dealing with your mental illness and your addiction. I have learned that it is important to deal with these 2 issues at the same time. This is the only way I stay healthy. If I only concentrate on one at a time then the other one acts up. it is alot of hard work but this is something I will have to do for the rest of my life. So,I work on my 12 step program and go to meetings as well as go to therapy and take my meds and now am going to DBT,Dialectal Behavior Therapy. The DBT is helping alot. I have to retrain my thinking so that my behaviors change and this treatment helps me learn how to do that. I have homework everyday,which I still hate having even at 47 yrs old.

I went to any lengths to get high now I will go to any lengths to stay sober and mentally healthy,or the healthiest I can be.

Kris

Post edited by: kball, at: 05/08/2012 01:41 PM

Post edited by: kball, at: 05/08/2012 01:42 PM

Kris, sounds familiar. I go to al-anon and addict (12 step) meetings to look at both sides of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

See my therapist weekly, and she also co-runs my weekly D.B.T. group. I am a huge believer in DBT, and it has helped me greatly!

See my Phsyc MD twice monthly, and take my meds as prescribed. I'm 48, and have been in treatment since I was 18. I couldn't handle it until I was ready, and that took 30 years.

The first time I took a new anti-depressant that made me feel anything besides depressed was less than a year ago. I call it a fluke : )

Others think I was just ready to mentally do the work. I guess it's both. I'm just happy that I am still here on this Mother's Day.

Holly

Yep...got to deal with both at the same time. I am lucky to have an AA group that shares mental health issues too. I take my meds and see my Pdoc monthly. I am also lucky that I have found the right combo of meds. SI feel pretty stable most of the time.

Post edited by: Bangbang, at: 05/15/2012 03:37 PM