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Good sleep patterns are an antidote for depression, and research shows that better sleep directly improves your mood.

There’s plenty of evidence that treatment for depression works, and that people with co-occurring disorders can and do get a whole lot better.

If we want to see any progress, we’ll have to figure out a way to break this apparent impasse.

It makes us uncomfortable to acknowledge that degree of helplessness.

At its root, treatment is primarily a work relationship– with goals that need to be accomplished, and outcomes that must be kept in mind.

This is really about a continuous process of change. The unifying force is the addict’s subjective experience.

Ambivalence isn’t just a matter of figuring out what we want to do. It’s very much about the ability to make good decisions and feel confident about them.

Really resistant clients are already planning to continue using alcohol or drugs throughout treatment, possibly in secret.

Even when the patient has concluded that continued substance use is no longer the best option, he or she still harbors a number of important doubts about the ability to change.

Most addicts and alcoholics wind up in treatment because they’re experiencing difficulties due to substance use– ranging from the pain of withdrawal to troubles with the law, to threatened loss of job or family.