Chemical Dependency and Dual Diagnosis Definitions
Alcoholism
1. Addiction to alcohol: dependence on alcohol consumption to an extent that adversely affects social and work-related functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when intake is stopped or greatly reduced
2. Alcohol poisoning: a physical disorder caused by the toxic effects of excessive alcohol consumption
Substance Abuse
Excessive consumption or misuse of substance: the excessive consumption or misuse of a substance for the sake of its no therapeutic effects on the mind or body, especially drugs or alcohol
Gambling Addictions
A gambling addiction is when a person has uncontrollable urges to gamble despite how much money he has or any negative consequences it may cause. Gambling addictions can cause harm to the gambler or those around him. People who have a gambling addiction are often referred to as compulsive gamblers. Someone with a gambling addiction may develop bad habits such as spending all of his money on gambling.
Sexual Addictions
Sexual addiction is best described as a progressive intimacy disorder characterized by compulsive sexual thoughts and acts. Like all addictions, its negative impact on the addict and on family members increases as the disorder progresses. Over time, the addict usually has to intensify the addictive behavior to achieve the same results.
Parenting Disorder
Relational disorders involve two or more individuals and a disordered "juncture," whereas typical Axis I psychopathology describes a disorder at the individual level. An additional criterion for a relational disorder is that the disorder cannot be due solely to a problem in one member of the relationship, but requires pathological interaction from each of the individuals involved in the relationship.
Anxiety
1. Feeling of worry: nervousness or agitation, often about something that is going to happen
2. Something that worries somebody: a subject or concern that causes worry
3. Strong wishes to do something: the strong wish to do something, especially if the wish is unnecessarily or unhealthily strong
"His anxiety to please"
4. Psychiatry extreme apprehension: a medical condition marked by intense apprehension or fear of real or imagined danger
Depression
1. Sadness: a state of unhappiness and hopelessness
2. Psychiatric disorder: a psychiatric disorder showing symptoms such as persistent feelings of hopelessness, dejection, poor concentration, lack of energy, inability to sleep, and, sometimes, suicidal tendencies
3. Economic slump: a period in which an economy is greatly affected by unemployment, low output, and poverty
4. Reduced activity: a lowering of activity, quality, vitality, or force
5. Hollow: an area on the surface of something that is lower than the surface surrounding it
6. Meteorology low-pressure area: an area of low barometric pressure that often brings rain.
Trauma
1. Emotional shock: an extremely distressing experience that causes severe emotional shock and may have long-lasting psychological effects
2. Bodily injury: a physical injury or wound to the body.
Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts longer than 3 months. Some experts define it as lasting longer than 6 months.
Chronic pain is different that it is not easy to find the cause. Diagnosis can reveal no injury in the body at all, and yet the patient can be experiencing very debilitating pain.
One way that chronic pain begins is from an injury. Scientists have found that repeated pain from an acute injury changes the way the brain lets you know you have pain. Even after the injury has healed, pain messages replay over and over again.
Relationship Problems
1.A connection, association, or involvement.
2.Connection between persons by blood or marriage.
3.An emotional or other connection between people: the relationship between teachers and students.
4.A sexual involvement; affair.
Dating
Activity of going on dates: the activity of going out regularly with somebody as a social or romantic partner
Establishing of age of something: the activity of establishing how old an object or substance is, often with the use of sophisticated scientific techniques.
Food Addictions
Compulsive overeating, also sometimes called food addiction, is characterized by an obsessive relationship to food. Professionals address this with either a behavior-modification model or a food-addiction model. An individual suffering from compulsive overeating disorder engages in frequent episodes of uncontrolled eating, or binge, during which they may feel frenzied or out of control, often consuming food past the point of being comfortably full. Binging in this way is generally followed by feelings of guilt and depression.
Pornography
Porn addiction is one of the most difficult addictions to overcome. Millions of people around the world struggle with overcoming this powerful vice once they acknowledge they have a problem. Its been compared to cocaine addiction because of similar neurochemical activity in the brain.
Self-Esteem
1.Self-esteem is a confidence in our ability to think, to cope with the basic challenges of life and confidence in our right to be successful and happy.
2.Self esteem means having a positive image of self.
3.Self-esteem is an evaluation of the emotional, intellectual, and behavioral aspects of the self-concept.
4.Self-esteem is a state of mind. It is the way you feel and think about yourself and others, and is measured by the way you act.
5.To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.
Work Stress
We can define stress as a normal physiological response of the body to situations or stimulus, which are perceived as 'dangerous' to the body. Stress can affect anyone and everyone at some point of time in their life. When it occurs frequently it affects health - both physical and mental.
Sleep Disturbance
A natural periodic state of rest for the mind and body, in which the eyes usually close and consciousness is completely or partially lost, so that there is a decrease in bodily movement and responsiveness to external stimuli. During sleep the brain in humans and other mammals undergoes a characteristic cycle of brain-wave activity that includes intervals of dreaming.
Shoplifiting
A shoplifting addiction is a fairly common condition, although the motivation of compulsive shoplifters is different from what you might expect. Contrary to popular belief, people suffering from shoplifting addiction don't steal because they can't live without the merchandise.
Instead, compulsive shoplifters say the rush of stealing merchandise without being caught produces an incredible feeling of euphoria that surpasses the reward of obtaining the stolen item. In fact, shoplifters with drug problems often describe the two addictions as having many similarities.