Mental Health

Health brain, body and mind are important and they are inseparable. Mental Health includes understanding and treating those issues that keep coming up time and again. These mental health issues underlie the addiction and contribute to repeated relapse or use without the ability to remain clean and sober. Sometimes it is about trauma and how individuals are reacting to experiences in their past that contribute to their current use of alcohol or drugs. Sometimes it is physical – depression can be present in families or it could be an experience of the individual. The thing is that these symptoms: depression, anxiety, worry, stress, insomnia to just name a few need to be assessed and treated at the same time as the addiction. If not then the relapsing or the use of substances or alcohol may continue on and on.

It is necessary to find an experienced mental health person to assess and take into consideration the addiction as well as the mental health symptoms. After all you are one whole person aren’t you? Avalon Center has that in Diane Hutcheson who is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who is experienced in treating people with both mental health issues as well as addiction. The mental health issues can be depression, PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), anxiety, panic attacks, mood swings, bipolar disorder, ADD, ADHD to name a few.