Submitted by: Shivam Prasad

Today more and more people are suffering from emotional distress such as depression, OCD, panic disorders or anxiety. But among these as less as only one third of people get the professional help. This article illustrates the importance of professionals for treatments.

The above disorders may also have caused by substance abuse. There is a closely linked connection between depression and substance abuse or drug problems. In fact they are interchangeable. Depression may result in substance abuse and in other cases substance abuse leads to depression most of the times.

Psychotherapy is the most effective treatment for chronic depression and anxiety. Some of the problems can be solved by self analysis and by improving on emotional strength. But most of the times there happen to be underlying causes for a particular behavior which usually left undiscovered and continue to bother you if not brought to your consciousness. Hence the goal of psychotherapy is to bring the unconscious reasons to the consciousness with the help of professional psychotherapist or the psychiatrist.

Addictions begin in the mind. Drug addiction is nothing but intense and uncontrollable desire or craving for drug intake even when knowing the disastrous consequences. The drugs consumptions often start voluntarily whereas to choose not to intake it in the later times gets compromised and becomes compulsive.

Psychotherapy plays a key role in drug rehabilitation and other types of substance abuse. Psychotherapy is given by trained psychologist or psychiatrist who helps the patient to recover from the effects of difficulties they are undergoing because of the drug addiction.

There are different types of therapies in psychotherapy for drug rehab which help the patient to get back to normal life. The drug rehabilitation centers provide following important types of psychotherapies:

One to One or individual therapy

Group Therapy

These last almost one hour per session and will help the patient to get out of the addiction completely, to improve health, to improve relationships and to progress individually.

Individual Counseling for drug addiction treatment

Cognitive behavior therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy are the most commonly used individual therapies where the counseling will be done on one to one basis. In the addiction treatment centre, as a first phase the patient will get to know his/her counselor and hence with this approach the addict will open up and share the information about their drug addiction. This approach will help the psychotherapist to understand the causes for the addictions, triggers in the environment for the continual drug abuse and the possible solutions to help the addict to recover from the present condition.

CBT helps the individual to get rid of negative beliefs and helps in building positive attitude towards the drug treatment and life. DBT helps the patient to manage emotions, to tolerate stress and improve their relationships.

Group Counseling in drug addiction treatment

One of the powerful methods of psychotherapy for drug addiction is group therapy. Here the patient not only meets the counselor but also group of fellow recovering addicts of a particular addiction. During the session all will be given a chance to openly share the information on their drug history and to keep the concerns of the future honestly. Since they are given a chance to open up with the group of people who are going through the similar situations and who are also willing to recover, the group therapy becomes very powerful.

Once the treatment is completed the individual has to prepare for the outside world which will have its own set of challenges. Psychotherapy will also include sessions to help the patient to successfully conquer the tests in life outside the drug rehabilitation centre.

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