Behavioral & Mental Health Conditions Series *Updating In January
Course overview
Lesson Overview

25.1 Understanding Dual Diagnosis: Understanding dual diagnosis means recognizing when a person experiences both a mental health condition and a substance use or behavioral addiction at the same time, creating overlapping challenges that influence each other. You learn that treatment must support both issues together rather than treating one while ignoring the other. Anxiety may drive addiction to calm nerves, while addiction worsens anxiety over time. Depression may lead to withdrawal and risky coping, while those same behaviors deepen hopelessness. Instead of feeling broken, you begin to understand the deeper connection within your struggles. Dual diagnosis requires compassion, structured support, and personalized strategies that respect how both challenges impact daily life. Awareness becomes a powerful step, helping you see that healing complex struggles is still possible when approached with patience, care, and a full picture of your needs.

About this course

A structured and empowering learning path that helps individuals understand, manage, and balance complex behavioral and mental health patterns. Through guided topics on OCD, ADHD, anxiety, trauma, depression, and other conditions, this series teaches self

This course includes:
  • Guided behavioral and emotional training

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