Dual Diagnosis and Co-Occurring Disorders
What is Depression?
We often use the expression "I'm feeling depressed" when we are feeling sad or miserable about life. Usually these feelings pass in due time. But if the feelings are interfering with your life and don't go away after a couple of weeks, or if they come back for days at a time it could be a sign that you're depressed in the medical sense of the term.
Depression in its mildest form can mean just being in low spirits. It does not stop you from leading your normal life, but makes everything harder to do and seem less worthwhile. At its most severe, major depression (clinical depression) can be life-threatening. It can make people suicidal or simply give up the will to live. Alcohol and drugs will intensify these feelings, so can stopping certain drugs or quitting drinking on your own. Prominence Treatment Center helps with depression in many different ways.
Depression doesn’t always mean that you are just sad. It is also a feeling of detachment from the world. All emotions including love, affection and anger are gone. In some cases you may feel fear, that you will be this way forever. This is the lie! Your depression can be caused by your alcohol and drug problem. The Depression may want to tell you to give up and that nothing will help. That is a lie! The depression is telling you that but it is not the truth! Call Prominence Treatment center today for more information.
