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Treatment for Drug Abuse and Eating Disorders

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When you suffer from substance abuse and a co-occurring condition such as an eating disorder, you need treatment for dual diagnosis. A dual diagnosis treats both issues simultaneously, helping you achieve healing for your whole body and emotional mindset. To recover from one, you must also recover from the other. It’s this integrative approach to healing that best helps clients who suffer from both drug abuse and eating disorders.

What Is an Eating Disorder?

The National Institute of Mental Health defines an eating disorder as a serious illness that causes disturbances in the way we eat and in the ways we think and feel about food. Someone who suffers from an eating disorder has little control over when and how much they eat. Rather, the disorder controls the person, causing them to abuse food in one of several ways:

  • Starving themselves
  • Binge eating
  • Purging after eating
  • Grossly overeating

Someone who suffers from an eating disorder may lose so much weight that they become skeletal or even die. Others may gain so much weight that they become bedfast. The physical damage to your body from a prolonged eating disorder may result in organ damage, deterioration of your esophagus, and more. If you know someone who has an overly emotional connection to food, encourage them to seek help at a nearby treatment facility.

What Is a Substance Use Disorder?

A substance use disorder happens when someone becomes addicted to a chemical substance such as alcohol or drugs. Disorders such as these may occur alone or with a mental illness. Conditions that commonly co-occur with addiction include:

  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Eating disorder
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Personality disorder
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder

When the two conditions co-occur, clients require an integrated approach to treatment for healing to happen. Drug abuse and eating disorders are a classic combination. Both wreak havoc on the individual who’s afflicted, physically, and emotionally. But there’s good news, too. Help is available for co-occurring conditions like drug abuse and eating disorders. The Integrative Life Center in Nashville, TN, provides ground-breaking treatment for clients with dual diagnoses.

Treatment for Drug Abuse and Eating Disorders at Integrative Life Center

In the scenic foothills of Tennessee’s glorious Great Smokey Mountains, Integrative Life Center is making positive changes in the lives of those struggling with drug abuse and eating disorders. Clients who choose to recover at Integrative Life Center enjoy the use of our spacious campus and upscale accommodations. Through exposure to cutting-edge therapies and state-of-the-art facilities, clients explore and redirect the intricacies of addiction.

Excellence in training boosts our staff of experienced care providers far above the rest. At Integrative Life Center, you’ll find compassion and a judgment-free environment to assist you in your recovery. Additionally, we apply a full range of holistic and whole-health approaches to the treatment of drug abuse and eating disorders, including:

  • Meditation, mindfulness, and yoga
  • Equine and adventure therapy
  • Art, music, and psychotherapy
  • Nutrition and fitness
  • Cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies
  • Sweat lodge therapy

Clients of the Integrative Life Center in Nashville, Tennessee, enjoy a full continuum of treatment that includes residential care, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and aftercare. Upon admission, clients undergo an initial assessment. Afterward, a personal care team evaluates and designs a treatment plan that’s customized to each individual.

Your path to recovery may look different from that of your peer, and that’s okay. Personalization is important at Integrative Life Center. You’re a person, not a case number. And to best aid you in a successful recovery, you have individual needs that must be met.

Trust Integrative Life Center to provide excellence in care for your substance use disorder, mental health condition, or co-occurring disorder. So call us today at [Direct] to begin building your healthier tomorrow.

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