Dual Diagnosis Treatments

Dual diagnosis treatments are designed for the person who has an addiction as well as a mental disorder. Cliffside Malibu is a Malibu, California luxury treatment center located high in the Malibu hills. We offer dual diagnosis treatments from our luxurious facility to make sure that you can recover. Programs that only treat addiction or depression and not both don’t have the success rate that Cliffside Malibu has. Our integrated dual diagnosis treatments make sure that both problems are addressed at the same time. Without that, it’s unlikely that true recovery can take place.

If you don’t get proper treatment, whichever aspect of the problems is undertreated or not treated at all will rise up and make things worse. If you stop using and think you’re conquered your addiction, your untreated depression will make you want to self-medicate. Your mood disorders can actually tempt you back to using alcohol or drugs. And if your depression is treated but you continue to drink or use drugs, those drugs act as depressants and make it easy for the depression to return. But with proper dual diagnosis treatments, both addition and mental illness are treated together in one treatment plan. This makes it easy to keep good track of each problem, and treat them together in a compatible way so that you can succeed. If you want to succeed, call Cliffside Malibu at 1-800-501-1988.

Individualized Dual Diagnosis Treatments

At Cliffside Malibu, you get individualized treatment dual diagnosis treatments, not the same treatment plan as everyone else. Our philosophy is that you are a unique and special person. Your addiction and disorder will be unique to you. So a treatment plan made for someone else just isn’t good enough. Your dual diagnosis treatments can even include some alternative therapies that you’d like to try. Yoga, acupuncture and hypnotherapy are a few alternative treatments that are available at Cliffside Malibu. This individualizes your treatment even more. You can talk to your therapist about alternative therapies that you think are right for you.

Your Cliffside Malibu dual diagnosis treatments will also be based on your particular mood disorder. For clinical depression there are several antidepressants that are available. But if you have manic depression (bipolar disorder), some of those antidepressants can actually make your depression worse. We know how to distinguish between the types of mood disorders you might, to give you the best treatment for your condition. There may be alternative therapies that are recommended to you, but of course you don’t have to try anything you don’t want to try. The important thing is that your dual diagnosis treatments are right for you, and the only way to really find that out is to try them. Call Cliffside Malibu today at 1-800-501-1988 to experience our dual diagnosis treatments for yourself.

Pain of Mood Disorders

One half of your dual diagnosis treatments is addiction, and the other half deals with your mental disorder. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve had this disorder, or how severe it is. At Cliffside Malibu, we’ve seen it all. You can’t shock us. You’re not alone in your worries about the center and your own mental illness. You may have even been in treatment for a mental illness or addiction before, but it didn’t work. Don’t worry, our dual diagnosis treatments have a much better success rate that either addition treatment or mood disorder treatment alone.

It’s important for you realize that dual diagnosis treatments don’t work magic. The therapies themselves don’t work unless you work at them. It might feel difficult or impossible, especially right at first. But you really can do it. Your mood disorder is probably already telling you that there’s simply no way life will get better. It’s telling you that you’re not worth the money of a stay at Cliffside Malibu, and you’re not worth the time. When you suffer from a mood disorder, nothing seems positive. Everything is just one more complication. At Cliffside Malibu we can help you start to put those bad feelings aside to make room for more good ones with our dual diagnosis treatments. Call Cliffside Malibu today at 1-800-501-1988.

Why Dual Diagnosis Treatments?

If you had heart disease and diabetes, and you only went in for diabetes treatments, you would still have heart problems. And the results of that could be contributing factors in your diabetes. If you very good care of your heart, but ate a diet that aggravates your diabetes, then the result would be potential damage to your heart. With addiction and mental illness, the situation is the same. If one of those is left untreated, it will cause problems with the other and bring that back into full swing. This is what you don’t want to happen and what almost always happens when the dual diagnosis treatments aren’t done properly.

This is why self-help doesn’t work very well when dual diagnosis treatments are needed. Most self-help programs treat one thing, like the addiction. The person is left to go on their own to seek help for the mental illness. Sometime they don’t go for help at all, and other times they find help but it’s not working in concert with their addiction recovery. This is almost worse than not getting treatment at all when the person feels so defeated and such a failure because they couldn’t overcome either problem. The reality is the only real way to do these treatments is to treat the whole person at once, not just treat a disorder or addiction. Sit down and call us at 1-800-501-1988.

Substance Abuse and Depression

Substance abuse always makes depression worse. So many common drugs are depressants that naturally depress mood and even bodily movements and functions. Sometimes a person becomes an addict and that leads to depression. Most dual diagnosis cases were depressed first, and that led them to self-medicate. Regardless of why you’re looking to Cliffside Malibu, you’ve made a choice that can positively affect your life. Once you’re free of substance abuse and your depression has started lifting, you’ll wonder why you didn’t come to Cliffside Malibu for dual diagnosis treatments sooner.

For additional information on the exclusive Dual Diagnosis Treatments at Cliffside Malibu, please visit our main Dual Diagnosis page. For immediate assistance call Cliffside Malibu anytime at 1-800-501-1988.