Posts Tagged ‘mental illness’

A Young Man Needs Therapy For His Severe Depression and Relationship Problems and Detoxification For His Alcoholism and Drug Dependency

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

About ten months ago I had lunch with a forty-one-year-old man named Alexander who suffers from severe depression, has relationship issues, and who is addicted to alcohol and drugs. As mentioned by Alexander, it is his alcohol and drug dependency and his severe depression that had the most to do with his perpetual relationship problems. [...]

 Mail this post

A Young Woman Needs Treatment for Her Mental Illness and For Her Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Roughly a month ago I heard about a twenty-eight-year-old woman named Rachael who is bipolar and who is also drug and alcohol dependent. I remember reading that in such situations, a person needs to get counseling for both medical problems and that mental health difficulties and chemical dependency tend to occur in the same person. [...]

 Mail this post