When people think about eating disorders, they usually picture behavior around food. Skipped meals, binges, calorie counting, rigid rules. What's talked about far less is what happens inside the brain while all of this is going on. An eating disorder doesn't just change what someone...
It is rare to work with someone in trauma therapy without some history of substance use entering the picture. And it is equally rare to work with someone around substance use without finding trauma somewhere in the background. The two are not always spoken about...
When someone develops a problem with alcohol or drugs, the explanation that gets offered most often is a personal failing - a lack of willpower, poor decisions, or a character flaw. But that framing misses something important. For many people, substance use begins as a...
When someone is dealing with both a mental health condition and a substance use disorder at the same time, a common approach has been to treat one before addressing the other. Get stable first, then work on the underlying issues. Get sober first, then deal...