Substance Abuse
- Are you wondering whether your drinking is too much?
Are you using drugs and find yourself unable to stop?
Do you feel like you should cut down on your drinking?
Are you finding yourself drinking or using drugs “to feel better”?
If you have answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may want to take the following test http://www.drugscreening.org. It will guide you through a series of questions and will give you some recommendations about your drinking and/or use of drugs.
If you are struggling with alcohol or drug problems you are not alone. Substance abuse issues occur in about one out of every eight Americans…
With advances in medical science, drug addiction has come to be viewed as a disease of the brain and not simply a social problem or a weakness in a person’s character. Addictions affect all parts of one’s life, work, family life, relationships, finances, and one’s own physical and emotional wellbeing. Addictions can even lead to legal consequences.
At Girlfriends Health, we offer individual psychotherapy to help you with your recovery.
Recovery means making a new life for yourself, finding new interests, building new relationships, and taking better care of yourself to help you replace substance use with a new and better lifestyle.
The primary focus of psychotherapy is to gain a better understanding of all the factors that contribute to your use of substances. Psychotherapy might include addressing the following:
- Lifestyle changes, i.e., modifying "people, places, and things" in your environment
- How to break the addiction cycle
- Examine how your substance may have been a way of numbing out certain mood or anxiety states, painful emotions and/or unresolved life experiences
- Identifying triggers, conditioned cues, and high risk situations
- Dealing with cravings
- Coping and problem-solving styles, i.e., your anger management style, stress management style, assertiveness, impulsivity, compulsivity, and "acting out" behaviors"
- How you see yourself (self-image and self-confidence), how you see others, and how you relate to others
- Social support systems
- The impact of your substance dependence on your relationship with your partner, children, other family members and friends, as well as on other important areas in your life.
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