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Expressive Therapies in Mental Health

Many people who are diagnosed with mental issues show an extreme liking for or talent in the creative arts.  It only makes sense that some of the alternative treatments incorporate this natural tendency. Below I cover three such alternative treatments. Often each is combined with more traditional methods, but not always.

Art Therapy: Drawing, painting, and sculpting help many people to reconcile inner conflicts, release deeply repressed emotions, and foster self-awareness, as well as personal growth. Some mental health providers use art therapy as both a diagnostic tool and as a way to help treat disorders such as depression, abuse-related trauma, and schizophrenia. You may be able to find a therapist in your area who has received special training and certification in art therapy.

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Holistic Medicine – The Next Step to Complete Healing

When we hear the word hospital, the first thing that comes in mind is a white building full of doctors, nurses, machines and medicines. Medicines are especially proliferated in hospitals, as they are what prevent people from crossing over into the next life.

Yet this overt focus on the pharmacological solutions to physical ailments poses problems of its own.

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Medical Drug Detox Might Have Saved Heath Ledger From Fatal Overdose

Actor Heath Ledger’s highly publicized recent death is focusing more attention on the skyrocketing overdose fatalities in the US propelled mainly by prescription drugs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), prescription drugs have overtaken cocaine and heroin combined as the leading cause of lethal overdoses. And treatment specialists across the country are seeing a huge increase in people with prescription drug problems of all kinds turning up at drug detox programs for help.

Although overdose deaths have been increasing since the early 1990s, recent prescription drug death statistics have risen so dramatically they have created the first increase in 25 years in the nation’s death rate from injuries of all kinds, the CDC said in a December study. Prescription drug abuse and overdose statistics are borne out in the changing demographic of people arriving at drug detox programs everywhere. A glance at news summaries from across the US shows an alarming rise in prescription drug dependencies requiring medical drug detox among ordinary professional working people – far more than heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other traditional street drugs.

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