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Mental Health Disorders
There are many different mental disorders with different presentations. Mental disorders include depression, bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, and other psychoses, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, dementia, cognitive disabilities, and developmental disorders such as autism.
There are effective strategies for preventing mental disorders such as depression. There are also effective treatments for mental disorders and ways to alleviate the suffering caused by them. Access to health care and social services treatment and social support is key.
We offer support through our own personal experience with mental health and connect you to resources to aid you along your own journey to recovery.
Substance Use Disorder
A substance use disorder (SUD) is a chronic health condition. It occurs when people repeatedly use a substance, damaging their health or losing the ability to meet responsibilities at work, school or home. The use of alcohol, prescription drugs such as opioids, and illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroine can become a SUD.
A substance use disorder or a mental health disorder can affect anyone, at any stage of life. These disorders can be treated — but often, people don’t realize they have them until they become dependent on the substance.
For those with dependence on opiates and opioids, withdrawal symptoms can be intense, they include increased anxiety, physical pain and flu-like symptoms. For those with SUD to alcohol, withdrawal symptoms can be deadly due to possible loss of consciousness from seizures.
For most people, the hard part comes after detox. Staying away from the same people and places and habits that got them dependent on the substance is the new challenge. The Harbor offers a safe, substance free environment and Peers are there to support newly sober participants by teaching and modeling skills to maintain their sobriety.
Families including those with Mentor2Success
Mental conditions and substance use disorders take a huge toll on family and significant others. A 2004 study demonstrated that parents were still often blamed for causing their child’s mental illness. Siblings and spouses were blamed for not ensuring that relatives with mental illness adhered to treatment plans. Children expressed fear of being passed down the mental illness of a parent. Such false beliefs leave many families feeling alone and stigmatized.
In addition, those with substance use disorders and mental conditions need support to be good parents.