Addiction and Depression
It is common to find people who suffer simultaneously from both addiction and depression while others may suffer from one of these conditions before or after they develop the other. People with varying degrees of depression – sometimes diagnosed and sometimes not – may turn to addictive substances or behaviours to bring relief from their depressive symptoms, […]
Eating Disorders and Addiction
Eating disorders have much in common with addiction to substances and to behavioural addictions. But there are also significant differences. These will be taken into account within the context of an addiction treatment centre. However, this will not be a suitable setting for every person with an eating disorder. The characteristics eating disorders have in […]
Quick Solutions for Addiction
Are there quick solutions for addiction? When dealing with addictive behaviors, this is a question (or hope) that, in many cases, will inevitably and sometimes involuntarily emerge. And the sentence could be completed with: and will it go away forever? While there are some aspects of addiction that can be dealt with “quickly”, such as […]