Childhood Trauma and Mental Health
Childhood trauma and mental health are intimately connected. Trauma may also contribute to substance use disorders. At Accxy, problems in later life that substance abuse treatment needs to address underlying factors to give our clients the best opportunity for long-term recovery. At our treatment center, we attempt to help each person work through the trauma and mental health condition that's resulted in addiction. Providing you with the tools to handle your mental health, trauma, and addiction successfully can provide you with the confidence and skill to manage your lifetime again. If you are prepared to take that first step, contact professionals at Accxy by calling today.
Childhood Trauma and Mental Health
A child that has battled the results of trauma has significant fears for his or her safety. They may have experienced pain, witnessed violence or tragedy, or gone through events that scar them mentally. Whereas one individual may process these events regularly, another may bury them deep within their subconscious. Unfortunately, this sort of feeling often come back to make adult living painful. When you cannot process painful memories, your brain finds methods to avoid them, leading to mental health disorders.
Sometimes, childhood trauma results in post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD negatively impacts emotions, relationships, behavior, and health. Those with PTSD often go through a number of the next steps:
- Sleep disturbances
- Nightmares
- Anxiety and depression
- Flashbacks
- Dissociative episodes
Feelings of fear, pain, shame, and anxiety cause some clients to harm themselves or self-medicate with alcohol or drug abuse. Using substances to self-medicate can lead to addiction, which opens the individual as much as other traumatic experiences.
Childhood Trauma and Addiction
Childhood trauma and mental health problems which go untreated can result in addiction. The reason why connecting childhood trauma have numerous layers that fluctuate from individual to individual. During your intake process, we gain as much information as possible about your health background, including childhood trauma and mental health issues impacting your substance use.
Whether your childhood fear has manifested as depression, anxiety, loneliness, or anger, we can assist you to learn to process your emotions in healthy ways. Within our dual diagnosis treatment program, we address the childhood trauma and mental health disorders that caused you to use drugs to begin with.
Break the Cycle
Sadly, abusing drugs and alcohol enables you to more vulnerable to trauma and mental health disorders. To break this vicious circle, seek assistance to get neat and stay clean at Accxy today. Our dialectical behavioral therapy program teaches you to accept and process negative feelings regarding your childhood trauma and mental illness. Mindfulness meditation can help you manage anger and stress to prevent triggering a relapse.
Co-occurring Disorder Treatment
For clients facing addiction to one or two substances and co-occurring mental health disorders, we create an individualized care intend to facilitate a full recovery. Should you suffer anxiety, PTSD, or depression and also have an alcohol use disorder, we treat these two conditions simultaneously. Otherwise, you might still have a problem with mental health problems and be more vulnerable to relapse.
Childhood Trauma and Mental Health Treatment in Tacoma, WA
You do not have to accept addiction, childhood trauma, and mental health problems anymore. With our dual diagnosis treatment programs, you can gain the various tools you need to recover from all of these conditions successfully. Our treatment programs at Accxy range from the following:
- Mindfulness meditation therapy program
- Individual therapy program
- Group therapy
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Somatic and trauma therapy
Call Accxy today at to find out more about recovery programs that may improve your life, freeing you from years or decades of childhood traumatic and mental health concerns. The future is now.