Co-occurring Disorders

Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment Newport Beach CA

At Lido Wellness Center, we are focused on treating the whole person. While we specialize in depressive and anxiety disorders along with trauma and stress-related disorders and co-occurring illnesses, we know that mental illness doesn’t fall into easy-to categorize buckets. Consequently, co-occurring conditions that include eating disorders, substance abuse, and other behavioral health conditions may accompany mood-related mental illness. For that reason, we here at Lido Wellness Center offer therapies for substance use, mental health disorders, and co-occurring disorders that address a variety of concerns that play a role in the health and well-being of our patients.

Eating Disorders

Our therapists here at Lido Wellness Center are skilled in understanding the complex nature of how trauma, mood disturbances, and our environment may impact an individual’s relationship with food and his or her body. We place great value on empowering patients to discover the wisdom of their bodies. 

This allows our patients to nourish themselves and move in a way that optimizes their treatment experiences and healing journeys with mental health and substance use. This also allows our patients to nourish themselves during treatment for all co-occurring disorders.

As individuals rebuild the trust between their minds and bodies for what, when, and how much to eat, they learn to freely eat without guilt or doubt. As individuals embrace a variety of foods and detach from the labels of good and bad, they also provide themselves with opportunities to understand and honor their taste preferences and bodily needs without judgment or criticism for their choices. 

This ultimately allows such individuals to become mindful and intuitive eaters. This also allows individuals who suffer from eating disorders or co-occurring disorders to treat their conditions. 

Substance Use Disorders

Substance use, such as alcohol abuse and drug addiction, is a pandemic in the U.S. that many times is associated with behavioral health conditions that stem from trauma. As a result, individuals who commit alcohol and drug abuse to the point of developing substance use disorders or co-occurring disorders with substance use often suffer from adverse long-term physical, emotional, and mental illnesses that can be serious or life-threatening. Thus, such individuals may need substance abuse treatment or treatment for co-occurring disorders.

The connection between trauma and other mental health disorders has been proven time and again. In fact, studies find that nearly 50% of people with substance use disorders also suffer from co-occurring anxiety or depression. In studies of military veterans or others likely to have experienced traumatic events, the rates of anxiety co-occurring with addiction are even higher.

Here at Lido Wellness Center, we believe that treating substance use without treating its underlying mood disorders or trauma that influence it is not sustainable. Our trauma-informed therapists have deep experience addressing substance use disorders and co-occurring mental illnesses. They also have an eye for past traumatic experiences that may have led to depression, anxiety, and eventually substance use.

Process Addictions

Many times individuals find that their habits and behaviors have led them down a frightening path. For some individuals, these negative habits and behaviors cause them to have unhealthy relationships with food or alcohol use. For others, these negative habits and behaviors can be compulsions that may harm their health and well-being by helping cause co-occurring illnesses. 

A variety of behaviors, classified as process addictions, can be damaging to a person’s ability to remain mentally and/or physically healthy and functional – whether in the home and/or within his or her community. Individuals often find these process addictions psychologically or physically rewarding, but something that they often feel guilty about later.

Some examples of process addictions include:

• Sex
• Shopping
• Food
• Gambling
• Television
• Gaming
• Internet
• Texting
• Exercise

Additional Mental Health Disorders

Here at Lido Wellness Center, there are many other mental health disorders that we treat within our co-occurring disorders programs. This is on top of each substance use disorder that we treat within our co-occurring disorders. This is also on top of the different co-occurring conditions that we’ve mentioned already such as eating disorders and various process addictions. Some of the top mental health disorders that we treat here at Lido Wellness Center are described below.

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are a category of mental health disorders that are characterized by extreme levels of fear that interfere with one’s daily life. As a result, people that suffer from anxiety disorders tend to always anticipate the worst and feel restless and irritable. Some people’s anxiety symptoms may even become so severe that they cause the person to experience physical symptoms such as racing heart rate, shortness of breath, headaches, fatigue, and insomnia, upset stomach, frequent urination, and diarrhea. 

Anxiety disorders often co-occur with other conditions such as substance use disorders and other mental illnesses. For example, anxiety and depression are often comorbid disorders. This is partly because both depression and anxiety often occur because of the same biological mechanisms within the brain. 

The fact that many substance use disorders also trigger parts of the brain that then trigger the appearance of anxiety and depression is a major reason why substance use disorders also often co-occur with anxiety disorders. 

Types Of Anxiety Disorders

There are various types of anxiety disorders. All of the different types of anxiety disorders have the potential to co-occur with other conditions. Some of the major types of anxiety disorders are described below.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by a constant and exaggerated sense of fear. Constantly experiencing such a high level of fear and worry can cause a person to suffer from health issues such as tension, nausea, or headaches. 

Suffering from unmanaged or untreated GAD can also cause one’s life to become unpleasant. Once that happens, people with GAD often develop depression. To manage the constant stress and fear that comes with suffering from anxiety and/or depression, people with GAD often start abusing substances. This often causes people with anxiety to develop co-occurring substance addictions. 

Social Anxiety Disorder

Social anxiety disorder causes people to develop irrational worries about socializing with others. As a result, such people may isolate themselves from others and not attend social gatherings. People with social anxiety disorder often experience panic attacks when in highly social situations. 

Panic Disorder

Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder that causes people to experience panic attacks and sudden feelings of terror. The physical symptoms that a person with panic disorder experiences are severe and distinct. 

For example, a person that suffers from a panic disorder may experience severe chest pain, heart palpitations, dizziness, shortness of breath, and an upset stomach. To avoid feeling the symptoms of panic disorder, many people isolate themselves from others and avoid doing anything that can cause them to feel any sort of fear. 

Phobias

Phobias are places, events, or objects that cause a person to feel irrationally fearful. Most people with phobias try to avoid the place, event, or object that triggers their irrational sense of fear at all costs. For example, a person that suffers from agoraphobia, or a fear of places or situations that may cause a person to be helpless, embarrassed, or panicked, will avoid such places or situations even if doing so interferes with his or her ability to easily live life. 

Selective Mutism

Selective mutism is a type of anxiety disorder that causes people to physically not be able to speak in certain social situations due to how much fear doing so causes them to feel. The bodies and voices of people that suffer from selective mutism will freeze up as a response to the intense levels of fear that they feel. 

Separation Anxiety Disorder

Separation anxiety disorder is characterized by extreme levels of stress when anticipating being away from one’s home and loved ones. People often first develop separation anxiety disorders as little children. People with separation anxiety disorder often experience panic attacks when separated from home and the people that they love and feel comfortable around.

Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety is often triggered by substance abuse and the effects that it causes to the human brain. Thus, substance use disorders and anxiety disorders often co-occur. 

Depression

Similar to anxiety disorders, depression often co-occurs with substance use disorders and other mental illnesses. Substance use disorders often co-occur with depression because chronic substance abuse often causes changes to the brain that triggers the response of depression. 

Depression is also a common withdrawal symptom of many substance use disorders. Many people with substance use disorders also suffer from depression because they had depression first and started abusing substances to cope. 

Many mental health disorders often co-occur with depression due to similarities that they may have in symptoms. Other mental health disorders often co-occur with depression because certain biological responses or changes to certain areas in the brain can trigger both conditions. 

Oftentimes, depression is simply a psychological response to suffering from other substance use and mental health disorders. 

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that causes people to go back and forth between experiencing mania periods and intense depression. Many of the reasons why people that suffer from mania and depression also suffer from substance use disorders and other mental illnesses are the reason why people with bipolar disorder often also suffer from substance use disorders and other mental illnesses. 

For example, many people with depression also develop substance use disorders because they start abusing substances to cope. Similarly, many people with bipolar disorder develop substance use disorders because they start abusing substances to cope when they are going through depressive episodes. Even people with bipolar disorder that go through episodes of mania may start using substances to calm themselves down and cope with the extreme feelings that they are experiencing. 

Bipolar disorder can also be induced through substance abuse, thus causing substance use disorders and bipolar disorder to co-occur. This is because substances such as heroin, alcohol, opioids, amphetamines, cocaine, hallucinogens, and more can cause manic and depressive symptoms as side effects. Already suffering from depression or mental illnesses that cause manic symptoms can also trigger the occurrence of bipolar disorder in individuals that are already susceptible to developing the mental illness. 

Personality Disorders

Personality disorders are mental health disorders that cause people to behave, think, and feel in ways that aren’t socially acceptable and cause distress and problems. Many co-occurring disorders often include personality disorders because many of the symptoms of the various personality disorders coincide with one another or that of other mental health disorders. 

Many people with personality disorders also use substances to cope with all of their idiosyncrasies. Furthermore, chronic substance abuse can often trigger the occurrence of many of the idiosyncrasies that are symptoms of many personality disorders. 

There are various personality disorders. The different personality disorders include:

Antisocial Personality Disorder 

Antisocial personality disorder causes people to disregard the rights of others. For example, people with antisocial personality disorders may impulsively lie and cheat others or steal from others.

Avoidant Personality Disorder 

When people suffer from extreme levels of shyness, feelings of inadequacy, and sensitivity to criticism. As a result, people that suffer from avoidant personality disorders may only socialize with people when they feel certain that those people will like them and not reject them.  

Borderline Personality Disorder 

This personality disorder causes people to be extremely impulsive and exhibit intense emotions, oftentimes in the form of anger or depression. Individuals with borderline personality disorders also suffer from extreme levels of low self-esteem, so much so that they may hurt themselves or commit suicide if their conditions are severe enough. 

Dependent Personality Disorder 

This disorder causes people to need to be taken care of. People that suffer from dependent personality disorder also tend to be submissive and clingy. As a result, individuals with dependent personality disorders often need reassurance to make decisions and feel helpless when alone.

Histrionic Personality Disorder  

This personality disorder causes people to obsessively seek attention even if they aren’t naturally comfortable with it. Thus, such people may exaggerate their emotions or resort to using their physical appearance to draw attention to themselves. 

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Narcissism causes people to have an abnormal need to be admired to the point of lacking empathy for others. Thus, people that suffer from narcissistic personality disorder suffer from delusions of grandeur. Narcissistic people also lack empathy and tend to take advantage of others. 

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder causes people to need constant control and have an obsession with perfection. 

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Paranoid personality disorder causes people to be extremely suspicious of others and assume the worst in them. As a result, people with paranoid personality disorder struggle to build close bonds with others. 

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Schizoid personality disorder causes people to express little emotion and be abnormally detached from others. 

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

This personality disorder causes people to have a distorted way of thinking that causes them to have odd beliefs. People with schizotypal personality disorders also exhibit eccentric behavior and are very uncomfortable getting close to others. As a result, such people may speak or behave oddly and suffer from social anxiety. 

Trauma And Stress-Related Disorders

Trauma and stress-related disorders are often part of co-occurring disorders because many people that experience trauma and extreme levels of stress feel the need to use substances to cope. Experiencing trauma and extreme levels of stress can even cause alterations in the brain that make people more susceptible to developing substance use disorders.

This is especially the case for people that experience trauma and stress-related disorders during childhood. Trauma and stress-related disorders can even cause people to develop other mental health disorders such as anxiety disorders or depression as a physiological response. 

Common trauma and stress-related disorders include:

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes people to experience persistent memories and flashbacks of moments of their past trauma.

Acute Stress Disorder

Acute stress disorder causes people to have extremely frightening thoughts and flashbacks of their past traumatic moments within the first month after experiencing trauma. With treatment though, the symptoms of acute stress disorder can dissipate and turn into standard PTSD. 

Adjustments Disorders

Adjustment disorders cause people to exhibit unhealthy physical or emotional responses to change. As a result, people with adjustment disorders may become depressed, act out, or even become violent when stressful changes occur in their lives. The people that suffer from adjustment disorders are almost always children. 

Reactive Attachment Disorder

Reactive attachment disorder causes people to exhibit limited emotional responses to otherwise emotional situations. Thus, people with reactive attachment disorder are very apathetic. 

Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder

This trauma/stress-related disorder causes people to be overly open and willing to trust and engage in physical contact with others. Small children often suffer from this disorder. 

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What Is Lido’s Approach?

Lido Wellness Center practitioners incorporate evidence-based interventions to support patients with co-occurring conditions. Examples of these evidence-based interventions include:

• Personal therapy: Discussing the acute issues that may be triggering the urge to engage and empower individuals to take responsibility for their behaviors. It can also empower individuals to institute new and healthier substance use coping mechanisms.
• Family therapy: Oftentimes, relationships at home are negatively impacted by an individual’s chronic engagement in behavioral addiction. Thus, such a behavioral addiction can contribute to feelings of broken trust and resentment. These feelings must be addressed therapeutically if the family unit is to continue and thrive in recovery.
• Support groups: Connecting with others who also struggle with mental illness, behavioral addictions, or co-occurring disorders, especially those who are in recovery for the same behavioral addictions and co-occurring disorders, can help somebody feel less alone. This, in turn, will increase the support network that is necessary for a person to obtain long-term healing.
• Alternative therapies: Psychodrama, trauma-informed yoga, creative arts, and expressive therapy groups – several holistic therapy options may be beneficial to a person that’s developing new methods of self-exploration and paths for healing.

Receive Treatment For Co-Occurring Disorders Today

When receiving treatment for co-occurring mental illnesses or mental health and substance use disorders, do so at a reputable treatment center that offers dual diagnosis treatment. That way you can effectively treat both your mental illnesses or substance abuse and mental health disorders. 

People who try to treat their co-occurring mental illnesses or co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders individually will only cause the disorder that’s treated second to trigger the recurrence of the first treated disorder. This is because both disorders within a co-occurring disorder are codependent and thus, play off of one another. 

Luckily, Lido Wellness Center is a treatment facility that specializes in treating the whole patient. To do that, we here at Lido Wellness Center offer substance abuse and mental health treatment. We also offer dual diagnosis treatment for both co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders. 

Here at Lido Wellness Center, we focus on mental, physical, spiritual, and relational wellness. Thus, by receiving integrated treatment with us, you’ll receive all the care that you’ll need to live healthy, full lives. 

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