Learning to live without Drugs & Alcohol

When it comes to people with Substance Use Disorders, using drugs or alcohol often has become a daily part of their lives. They struggle with the emotional impacts of daily living and rely on a method of self-medication to quell the uneasiness of their feelings. Their emotional thoughts overwhelm their cognitive reasoning and their only "perceived" solution becomes the seemingly endless cycle of addiction.

But there are ways to end the cycle. There are positive ways to help quiet the "urge" to use. Because that is what it is - an urge, a craving. A misguided belief that once you use your drug of choice, the emotions and uneasiness will go away and you won't have to feel them again.

But the reality is emotions are always a part of our life and our uneasy feelings - like anxiety, are a part that we don't hold the power to control. So we need to embrace those feelings and allow ourselves to share them with those we love and trust.

Substance Use Disorders are both a physical and emotional affliction. Although it becomes a reaction to emotional stress, Substance Use Disorders can soon become a habitual response and a physical desire. The pleasurable, euphoric feeling we have when using soon becomes part of the addiction. Our bodies start to require higher and higher amounts of dopamine (our body's "natural drug") to achieve the same feelings of pleasure. So how can we increase our dopamine levels naturally, so we don't need to rely on drugs or alcohol to "feel good" ? There are a number of proven methods to do this...

First, it is important to recognize the need for change in your life and to seek out the ways in which you can create positive changes that enhance your emotional and physical well-being, rather than destroying it. That change comes from counseling. Whether you utilize on-site treatment or out-patient counseling the goal is change.

That's where we come in - the Resource Recovery Center of Orange County (the "RROC") can help teach you the ways in which you can take control and make the changes necessary. Whether you need a detoxification program to start and then utilize our rehabilitation services - or you simply apply to our rehabilitative counseling program for assistance.

The key goal is to help you understand the tools necessary to recover and teach you to utilize them in your life to create change. So if you need to explore a way to live life without drugs or alcohol, contact us - we can help.

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