What is dual diagnosis?
A dual diagnosis occurs when an individual is affected by both chemical dependency and psychiatric/emotional illness.
Both illnesses may affect a person physically, socially, psychologically, and spiritually.
Each illness has symptoms that interfere with a person’s ability to function effectively. The illnesses may affect each other, and each disorder predisposes to relapse in the other disease. At times the symptoms can overlap and even mask as each other, making treatment and diagnosis difficult.
To fully recover, a person needs to treat/address both disorders.
Other names for this illness are:
- Co-morbid disorders
- Co-occurring disorders
- Concurrent disorders
- Co-morbidity
- Dual disorders.
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