Addiction Counseling

Overview

The brain’s reward, motivation, memory, and associated circuits are all impacted by addiction, which is a chronic but a treatable disease. It is a habit or a behavioural pattern in the form of response to a particular stimulus. Addiction affects the brain’s reward system.

How does addiction start?

People engage in potentially addictive behaviours to experience pleasure, and if these behaviours are reinforced over time, changes in brain chemistry may occur that result in an unconscious drive to continue the action. Numerous elements, including heredity, diet, mental health, previous traumas, pain, stress, and stage of life, have an impact on this process. 

How can an addiction be overcome?

Desiring change and staying away from that which encourages addiction like people, places,  are the first steps in recovering from addiction. Therapy is a very effective way for deaddiction. Click here to seek therapy.

Once the therapy is completed, support groups, mentors and counselors can also aid the de addiction process.Rehabilitation facilities offer knowledge and medication to alleviate cravings and withdrawal symptoms. Exercise and eating well both contribute significantly to recuperation.

Common behaviors and warning signs of addiction include

Usually, people with substance abuse addiction avoid social interactions or ignore relationships. Mood swings are their second nature. Losing interest in previously appreciated hobbies or activities is a sign of addiction. Support is available if you are concerned about a friend or acquaintance. It can be challenging to determine whether someone has a problem because not all addictions are obvious, and many people try to hide their behaviour from friends and family.

How is addiction counselling carried out?

After going through the goal of addiction counselling, it’s time to look at the various counselling modalities. Since therapy is an individual process, one form of counselling might be more successful for one person than another. The many counselling types are listed in the following paragraphs. 

Individual Guidance

Individual counselling, as the name implies, entails a counsellor meeting with the client alone. Meetings may occur more frequently or less frequently; you and your counsellor will decide on a frequency that is right for you. Together, the client and the counsellor create a thorough therapy plan.

This form of counselling is preferred by those who wish to work closely with a single counsellor in a private setting. Benefits are greatest for those who desire assistance in creating objectives and overcoming obstacles on their own.

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