Overcoming Addiction – Dual Disorders

June 2, 2009

Dual disorders refer to someone who suffers both an addiction and a mental/emotional disorder of some kind. The prototypical sufferer is someone with depression or an anxiety disorder—some kind of felt dysphoria—who is also addicted to alcohol or other drugs that are usually used to medicate the pain of that dysphoric unpleasantness. And it is not unusual to encounter persons who live the process in reverse, as addictions will induce mental and physical suffering of various kinds, if carried on long and deep enough.

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