Recovering from addiction through counselling therapy

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Recovering from addiction through counselling
therapy

• - Ottawa Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre -

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• An addiction is an illness that can lead to
  various serious complications on the addicted
  persons life. Completely getting out of
  addiction is a serious, challenging, and tedious
  long-term battle. Making the decision to quit is
  the first step, but sticking to that decision and
  religiously doing something to finally quit is
  another story.
• An addiction is an illness that can lead to
  various serious complications on the addicted
  persons life. It can also negatively affect the
  lives of his family and the entire community as
  well. It can ruin your finances, relationships
  with family, friends, and loved ones, his ability
  to think well or to do productive things he used
  to be good at, and the quality of his life in
  general.

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Treating addiction

• Kicking addiction may sound like just an easy
  undertaking. The truth is, it can be more
  challenging than you can ever think of. Truly,
  making the decision to quit is easy, but sticking
  to that decision and religiously doing something
  to finally quit is another story. Completely
  getting out of addiction is a serious,
  challenging, and tedious long-term battle. There
  will be times when you think that you are already
  free from addition, and then suddenly you feel a
  craving for the things you are addicted to.
  Before you know it, you are already having a
  relapse.

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• An addiction cannot treat itself. Taking over the
  counter and prescription medications like mood
  stabilizer, narcotic antagonists, and
  antidepressants are also not enough to totally
  kick addiction away. It needs to be supported by
  more effective treatment programs like
  psychotherapy.

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Importance of counselling therapy

• The primary purpose of psychotherapy is to help
  the individual attain and maintain sobriety and
  to help them prevent relapse. Although addiction
  problems are hard to resolve and overcome, many
  addicted individuals are able to successfully
  manage their illness, to take over their
  addictions and the things that trigger it, and to
  get back to their old sensible self with the help
  of a professional addiction counsellor in Ottawa.

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• There are different psychotherapy approaches and
  treatment programs available for various kinds of
  addiction. Most of the time, these approaches and
  programs are mixed and matched in order to fit
  the addictive individual.

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• Counselling services like family counseling and
  individual counseling, acceptance and commitment
  therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy,
  interpersonal psychotherapy, supportive
  psychotherapy, dialectical behavioral therapy
  (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT),
  psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies, and
  recovery-oriented challenge therapy, are by far
  considered as the most effective forms of
  psychotherapy.

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• Just like everything that is happening around us,
  addiction also has causes and effects. An
  addiction may be rooted in different emotions,
  behaviors, social interactions, thoughts,
  situations, and other triggers.

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• It is important that you are able to identify
  these root causes and reasons in order to
  effectively treat addiction problems. You need to
  replace the broken faucet to totally solve the
  issue. An addiction also works this way. That is,
  you cannot just fix addiction problems without
  taking care of the root causes first.

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• A professional psychotherapist can help you
  identify and understand the role that these
  triggers play in your current situation. He or
  she can likewise help you understand and realize
  how these triggers can affect you in the future
  and your journey towards recovery as well.

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