Dual Diagnosis Centers
One thing that you will discover quite quickly about many of the dual diagnosis centers around is that they are not all equal in their ability. In fact, you will find that many dual diagnosis centers are actually not that good at providing services for your mental illness and substance abuse problems. A lot of the time the clinics are specialists in one particular field. They then provide some cursory service in the other just so that they can claim that they are serving both of the needs of a dual diagnosis patient. For obvious reasons this is not a plan that can work well. Fortunately for you, Sunset Malibu is not at all like any of these clinics.
When we say dual diagnosis centers, we actually do mean dual diagnosis centers. We have dual diagnosis centers that have people that have experience with treating mental illness and with treating substance abuse. More importantly however, our people also have experience with treating both of the conditions together. This is something that becomes critical when you consider how dangerous mental illness and substance abuse can be when they are combined into a single problem. To see the difference our solution makes, call Sunset Malibu at 1-800-332-9202.
A Note On California Dual Diagnosis Centers
A lot of people from other parts of the country like to pick on California a bit, claiming that the people living in the state are a bit spoiled. However, this is perhaps a lot more legitimate when you take a look at the dual diagnosis centers that we have. For starters, the average quality of the dual diagnosis centers in California is actually a lot higher than the same average quality would be in just about any other state in the country. That is something that we can be proud of, but at the same time it is not something that should make you think that you can just pick any clinic out of the phonebook and get really good service.
The reason that a lot of people would say that California has better dual diagnosis centers than the rest of the country is that people primarily look at both mental illness and substance abuse treatment rates when they are making this judgment. As we have already mentioned before, this is not necessarily the best way to judge such things since a clinic that is good at dual diagnosis is not necessarily going to be the same as a clinic that is good at just mental illness or just substance abuse. This is why you still need to be careful when picking a clinic to go to. We are good in both areas and can easily prove that fact to you. Call Sunset Malibu today at 1-800-332-9202 to experience our dual diagnosis centers for yourself.
Combining Mental Illness And Substance Abuse
Over the course of the first two sections we have spent a lot of time discussing why dual diagnosis centers that only treat one of your two problems effectively have to be discarded immediately as potential treatment options. You might be wondering why we think this. Well, it has to do with the synergistic nature of combining mental illness and substance abuse. When something has synergy with something else, it means that their combination makes the final result more powerful than the sum of the two things. In other words, a dual diagnosis center is working with a condition that is more powerful than the combination of mental illness and substance abuse because each gets more powerful when it is combined with the other.
This is best explained with an example. Think of a person suffering from depression and alcohol addiction. If the person gets over depression, but still has alcoholism, have they made any progress? The answer is no because someone addicted to alcohol is at risk to regain their depression even after getting over it. The same is true the other way around. Someone might feel great about getting over alcoholism, but the moment depression starts taking over they can easily get driven back to the bottle. This is why good dual diagnosis centers will treat both at once, because good dual diagnosis centers understand this synergy. We understand it, so call Sunset Malibu today at 1-800-332-9202.
Treatment At Dual Diagnosis Centers
Now that you know why it is so important for dual diagnosis centers to treat both the mental illness and the substance abuse problem, let us take a look at a treatment that will actually get that done. Any of the good dual diagnosis centers know that there is really only one treatment that can do that well from the start. That treatment is counseling.
Just about every single patient that comes to one of our dual diagnosis centers gets treated with counseling at the start. It is personal, it allows our counselor to build a rapport right from the start and of course it really shows how amazing just sitting down and talking about your problems can be. It is also useful to help establish the cause of the problem, amongst other things. To find out more about how we use counseling and what it means to our treatment, call us at 1-800-332-9202.
Depression And Alcoholism Are Not Permanent
To most people, this is a bit of an obvious statement. We understand that if you are actually dealing with both of these problems however, it might not be a statement that is immediately obvious. We have seen people walk in with no hope in their life, only to walk out later changed individuals because of our dual diagnosis centers. We helped them out and we can help you too. Just remember that we are a phone call away. And it is even a toll-free phone call that can be made anytime, even at four in the morning.
For additional information on Dual Diagnosis Centers at Sunset Malibu, please visit our main Dual Diagnosis page. For immediate assistance call Sunset Malibu anytime at 1-800-332-9202.