Mental Health

Professional Guidance – July 2017 Dream Journal

Dream Journal Volume XLXI / July 2017 Note From Dr B. People aren’t expected to recover from a life-threatening illness without care and we use the dimension of professional guidance to represent how we help an individual do the things that are necessary to recover. That professional guidance during the first phase might be helping them to get up in the morning to re-establish their circadian rhythms. Later on, it’s an individual therapy where they can delve deeply into emotional hurts that they’ve experienced about their life and share them with another person, sometimes for the first time in their lives, …

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Peer Support – June 2017 Dream Journal

Dream Journal Volume XLX / June 2017 Note From Dr B. Peer support is probably the most important thing that you can experience in treatment and it’s experienced in different ways depending upon the phase that you’re in in treatment. Coming into treatment, you look around and you see that other people have the same kind of problems that you’ve had and you learn to identify and understand that you’re not unique in what you’re feeling or what you’ve gone through to get here. You also see people who are a little further along in treatment than you are who are …

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Finding Employment After Rehab

Many individuals find that returning to work after rehab is a major challenge. For some, it’s because returning to their previous place of employment makes them feel stressed or triggered to use drugs again. For others, it’s because of a long period of unemployment, which makes getting hired more difficult. Some have a poor employment history (no work or working under the influence), and for others, legal issues hold them back. Whatever the reason, it’s a good idea for people finishing addiction recovery to leave much of the past behind and make a fresh start. Many people try living life …

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Abstinence – May 2017 Dream Journal

Dream Journal Volume XLIX / May 2017 Note From Dr B. Abstinence is critical for recovery. The individual who’s been using alcohol or drugs or other devices has to stop and return the body to as near-as-makes-no-difference-to-normal state in order to start the process of recovery. However, just taking the drugs out of your system doesn’t give you recovery; it gives you an opportunity to step back and then put together a life that one can lead in recovery. This dimension is very critical and it can be done in a way where the individual goes through detoxification or maybe on …

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Looking Out Phase – April 2017 Dream Journal

Dream Journal Volume XLIIX / April 2017 Note From Dr B. I created the “3-7-3” philosophy as part of my commitment to holistic, evidence-based treatment that is both all-inclusive and highly effective. Patients are required to examine their progress introspectively throughout their stay at Two Dreams and spend every day working to complete the three phases of treatment via our seven dimensions of treatment. When both the patient and the staff feel that the individual has achieved the three main outcomes of recovery, mental peace, physical wellbeing, and personal productivity, they are ready to transition out of our facility. The first …

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Looking In Phase – March 2017 Dream Journal

Dream Journal Volume XLVII / March 2017 Note From Dr B. I created the “3-7-3” philosophy as part of my commitment to holistic, evidence-based treatment that is both all-inclusive and highly effective. Patients are required to examine their progress introspectively throughout their stay at Two Dreams and spend every day working to complete the three phases of treatment via our seven dimensions of treatment. When both the patient and the staff feel that the individual has achieved the three main outcomes of recovery, mental peace, physical wellbeing, and personal productivity, they are ready to transition out of our facility. The …

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Coming In Phase – February 2017 Dream Journal

Dream Journal Volume XLVI / February 2017 Note From Dr B. I created the “3-7-3” philosophy as part of my commitment to holistic, evidence-based treatment that is both all-inclusive and highly effective. Patients are required to examine their progress introspectively throughout their stay at Two Dreams and spend every day working to complete the three phases of treatment via our seven dimensions of treatment. When both the patient and the staff feel that the individual has achieved the three main outcomes of recovery, mental peace, physical wellbeing, and personal productivity, they are ready to transition out of our facility. The first …

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Study suggests MRIs can identify structural and neural alterations in the brains of youth with a family history of alcohol and drug use disorder

Researchers have discovered that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to identify structural and neural alterations in the brains of youth with a family history of alcohol and drug use disorders. This technique may be used to predict adolescent susceptibility to substance abuse disorders before substance abuse even begins. Contact us today at 504-510-2331 if you or a loved one is struggling with substance abuse; the earlier the better! Read more here: http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2017/feb/mri-brain-scans-may-help-identify-risks-prevent-adolescent-substance-abuse

Service – December 2016/January 2017 Dream Journal

Dream Journal Volume XLV / December and January 2016 Note From Dr B. In 2011, researchers from Case Western Reserve University published an article in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly indicating that volunteer work and service to others are integral to the recovery process. This finding is consistent with the stated purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous, to stay sober and help others achieve sobriety as well. At Two Dreams, clients embrace the power of service to themselves and others through regular group therapy sessions. Clients help each other process their emotions and provide feedback on their progress in their recovery. We encourage clients to …

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Spirituality – November 2016 Dream Journal

Dream Journal Volume XLIV / November 2016 Note From Dr B. Addiction is a disease of learning, memory, motivation, and choice that results in biological, social, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual alterations. In this edition of the Dream Journal, I want to focus on the spiritual aspect. One of my favorite definitions of spirituality comes from a 2000 edition of “The Physician Executive,” in an article entitled “Spirituality and the Physician Executive: Reconciling the Inner Self and the Business of Health Care.” The author, Kaiser, claims that spirituality “…refers to a broad set of principles that transcend all religions. Spirituality is about …

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