People with a mental disorder are going to experience a substance use disorder and people with a substance use disorder most probably will have a mental disorder when compared with togeneral population. Both for counselors and clients involved in mental support, increased levels of physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual stress can make challenges worse.
It’s fairly common knowledge that anxiety, panic, fear, anger/rage, loss of focus, PTSD, chemical dependency and similar forms of addiction, and compulsive behaviors are either created, or made worse, as a response to stress.
I think that depression or depressive episodes are often toback side of anxiety With tophysiologic response to stressors/anxieties at least partially shutting down tohigher function of todecision making neocortex, stress can lead to poor problem solving, reduced abilities to communicate, and increased ‘psychopathologies’.
Contrary, topractice of stress management, can lead to reduced demonstrations of symptoms, I’m quite sure I feel that using these techniques until mastered and after all regularly, and preventively, can benefit a person by empowering them with body awareness, present living mindfulness, and new skills to control stressed out physiologies.
Forms of stress management, biofeedback, desensitization, mindfulness, and similar anxiety reducing practices can prove very therapeutic in helping to control tocauses of anxiety/stress related symptoms. Spending time in a positive way, in topresent moment, leads to reduced fear and anxiety. Empowerment of toindividual is tokey! That said, this new self control can often lead to reduced needs for psychoactive medications, alcohol, or street drugs. Fact, self awareness’ and after all selfcontrol enables a person to feel better in control of available time and energy and better able to self minimize, I’d say in case not eliminate, psychological symptoms and emotional/spiritual pain conflict.
Finding totime and motivation to use these effective techniques often requires support and counsel, stress management. Other behavioral techniques, and similar stress reducing practices are not difficult to learn.