The ability to effectively manage stress makes an incredible difference in people’s lives. While you may consider nervousness to be part of your personality, it should not be controlling your life. Some people are able to use small amounts of alcohol and drugs during stressful times without consequences, but that doesn’t work for everyone.
If you have lost control of your life while relying on drugs to soothe anxiety, you are not alone. At Crestview, our therapists work to teach and demonstrate emotion regulation skills that can help you stay sober. Developing stress management skills helps people in their relationships, self-image, and ability to sleep peacefully. Personal growth often starts with the ability to stay levelheaded during times of stress. Contact our acute stress disorder treatment center by calling 866.262.0531 if you are interested in learning more about stress management and sober living.
Multidimensional Healing
For men and women with substance use disorder, it is critical to focus on the health and recovery of your body in both a physical, emotional, and spiritual way. When we start to peel away some of the drug use, we may start to feel a lot of stress and frustration. It’s not uncommon, and that’s why we offer a stress management program to help you. The benefits of stress management as a component of your recovery are clear. At Crestview Recovery, we want to give you every opportunity to heal in the following programs:
- Outpatient addiction treatment
- Partial hospitalization
- Intensive outpatient rehab
- Sober living homes
Your addiction counselor’s job at Crestview will be to work with you to assist in identifying, processing, and moving on from the issues that led you to use substances in the first place. Individual therapy will also help you address fears, concerns that are specific to your recovery.
Addiction Recovery: Stress Matters
People often use drugs or alcohol to deal with their inability to manage the turmoil in their inner and outer worlds. You may be dealing with stress at work, at home, in relationships, and at school. You may feel the symptoms of anxiety and even depression creeping in because there are so many challenges around every corner. You use drugs or alcohol as a way to stop those thoughts from happening (or distract yourself from thinking about them). It’s very common to see these treatments, then, as a way to simply deal with stress without seeking help. The ability to effectively manage stress will change your world for the better.
Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts
Without drugs and alcohol to keep them at bay, intrusive thoughts can cause anxiety and feelings of dysfunction. The stress starts to build until it is unmanageable. In addition to this, when you start to gain clarity and realize where you are going in recovery, you may be worried about what you could face. That’s why it is so important to realize the benefits of stress management. Through cognitive-behavioral therapy, a codependent individual will learn new ways to view the world and their self-worth. The new view is a trigger to adjust destructive patterns and behaviors as a result.
Therapy Sessions During Rehab
In every situation, stress management is a huge component of your success. Our team will offer a wide range of tools to help you through this. At the heart of this is the process of simply learning to regulate emotions in a way that is conducive to the lifestyle you want to have. We can help you during individual therapy sessions. You’ll have sessions focused on using tools like the following to help you manage your thoughts:
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness meditation therapy
- Dual diagnosis treatment
During these programs, you will learn how to change your thought patterns to avoid the work outcome or poor decision-making.
The benefits of stress management also need to focus on healing the whole body. That is why we utilize the tools for holistic therapy to help you. You will feel better when you are engaged in treatment options such as art therapy, yoga therapy, and music therapy. Group therapy can also help you. When it comes to these types of therapies, most people can start to feel better sooner.
The benefits of acute stress disorder treatment and other management techniques like these are often a significant role in your health. Our team wants to ensure you are getting the highest level of care for your needs. A component of that is reducing your stress.
Contact Crestview Recovery
The benefits of stress management for people working to manage substance use disorder cannot be overstated. For those battling drug and alcohol addiction, stress management is critical. With our comprehensive treatment plans and outstanding opportunities, we can help you achieve your biggest goals. Call our compassionate counselors at Crestview Recovery to learn more about how we can help you. Call 866.262.0531 today.
Since 2016, Dr. Merle Williamson, a graduate of Oregon Health Sciences University, has been the Medical Director at Crestview Recovery, bringing a rich background in addiction medicine from his time at Hazelden Treatment Center. He oversees outpatient drug and alcohol treatments, providing medical care, setting policies, detox protocols, and quality assurance measures. Before specializing in addiction medicine, he spent 25 years in anesthesiology, serving as Chair of Hospital Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and Chief of Anesthesia at Kaiser Permanente. This experience gives him a unique perspective on treating prescription drug addiction.
