A Simple Plan: Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders

It’s a tough enough challenge to sober up and build a solid recovery with alcoholism or drug addiction.  If you suffer from depression, anxiety disorders, or other mental illness, the challenge is twice as hard.  Fortunately, treatment providers are learning new and more effective ways to help people with co-occuring disorders.

One key to success is learning recovery skills for both addictive disease and mental illness, and applying them together.  It’s not always easy.  To help, here is a series of five short articles on the “Ten Steps of Co-occuring Disorders Recovery.”