If they occur together, both substance abuse and mental health illness can greatly affect an individuals psychological, mental, spiritual and social and physical status. These symptoms may interfere with how the individual may function in a more effective manner and with regards to the people around the person. Dual diagnosis must be detected earlier in order to prevent the effects of the disorder and elicit the other manifestations.
To make things worse, not only can co-existing morbidities affect a persons life but create symptom interaction which can exacerbate disorders severity which makes relapse more possible. Diagnosis of a mental illness must be done by a psychiatrist or a physician. But because of the masking and overlapping effects of drugs which is the cause of psychosis, it will be more difficult on the part of the physician to make a very accurate diagnosis in order to give treatments which are effective and very much appropriate.
One key element of dual diagnosis is through suspicion or awareness that someone is already being drawn to mental illness and drug addiction or alcoholism. Signs like these must strictly be taken into consideration. You...
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