Alcoholism and…. ?? (Dual Diagnosis) Explored

Dual diagnosis is any mental condition along with drug or alcohol addiction. Did you know according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, roughly 50% of individuals with a substance use disorder are also dual diagnosed with a mental illness? Alcohol is a great masquerader of mental illness.

At what point do you identify whether you have a dual diagnosis or it’s the alcohol? Not everyone has the same experience. Listen in at the Sober Coffee Shop as Mike and Glenn discuss their experiences with co-occurring disorders and their dual diagnosis, what path they took to sobriety and treatment, and where they are at today. 

Want more clinical information about Dual Diagnosis?

Visit Care Addiction Center’s Resources For Recovery Blog: https://www.careaddiction.com/edu/dual-diagnosis-substance-abuse-mental-health

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com/

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Intro to Al-Anon – With Cathy

In this episode, we talk with Cathy about her experience with Al-Anon throughout her life as a child of alcoholics and later as a mother whose child struggled with addiction.

Al-Anon’s purpose is to help families and friends of alcoholics recover from the effects of living with them. 

Think this means you’ll go and learn how to do an intervention, learn how to fix help an alcoholic? NO. You are powerless over them. 

Instead, you’ll work on how you are reacting by learning tools on how to handle and manage the alcoholic around you. One example: boundaries. You can love them, you can have compassion, but then you have boundaries like no alcohol in the house.

At Al-Anon you’ll work the 12 steps for yourself – learning love and compassion, and understanding. Relationships start to get better, and when one person gets better, the family gets better.

For more about Al-Anon:

Visit Al-Anon website: https://al-anon.org/
Mokina Fellowship website: https://aamokenafellowship.org/

For immediate information, call: 1-888-4AL-ANON (1-888-425-2666)

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com/

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com/