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Therapy Options to Help You Overcome an Opioid Addiction

by info@cedargrovemedical.com (Admin), Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:47 PM

12.15.2017

When you have been struggling with an opioid addiction for years, you may find it difficult to think that any form of treatment or therapy can help you overcome your opiate abuse issues. However, there are many different treatment and therapy options designed to all work together to give you a comprehensive treatment program for your opioid addiction.

If you are ready to finally overcome your addiction to opioid drugs, you need to know the various therapy options that can help you do so. Once you better know the different therapies you can utilize in your treatment program, you can be sure that you get the best treatment in your addiction recovery.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

One of the most popular types of therapy for addiction treatment and recovery is known as cognitive-behavioral therapy. This is a form of treatment that focuses on two aspects of a person's addiction, their cognitions (thoughts and feelings) and their behaviors (patterns of action).

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is an individual therapy option that helps a person to discover the problematic thoughts, feelings and behaviors that contribute to their opiate addiction and substance abuse issues. Once the person is able to identify these issues, they can then learn to address them as well as develop specific strategies to cope with addictions in the future.

Art Therapy

Art therapy is another form of therapy that can be used to help you overcome your opioid addiction. This is a group therapy option rather than an individual form of therapy and focuses on helping a person recovering from an addiction to become better in tune with their emotions.

Through creating art, whether it be a drawing, painting or sculpture, and then discussing it, the recovering addict's emotions will become clear and the individual will be able to better identify what they are feeling. This awareness can lead to further insights about why someone feels the way they do and how their emotions affect everything they say or do.

Understanding and being aware of your emotions is an important step toward addiction recovery. Being able to sense emotional shifts can help a person deal with relapse early on - before substance abuse is resumed. The artistic practices learned in art therapy can also be used as a coping strategy once treatment is over.

Restorative Yoga

The physical as well as the mental and emotional body of a person becomes damaged when that person abuses opiate drugs. Therapy options like restorative yoga can help to heal both the mind and body when a person is recovering from an addiction.

Restorative yoga focuses on the mind-body connection and restoring that all-important connection. This is achieved through performing stretches and slow, deliberate movements while also practicing mindfulness. Oftentimes, the mindfulness starts with a focus on breathing while performing these physical actions.

However, once a person becomes more practiced at the sequence of poses and movements, the mind can be trained to focus on specific muscles, the heart, quieting the thoughts in the mind and being fully in the moment. Meditation after physical exertion is also a major part of a restorative yoga therapy practice because it helps to center the mind and the body.

When a person becomes more aware of the ways that their emotions and thoughts affect their physical being (and vice versa), they can be more in tune with what their mind and body need. This thinking pattern can help with post-recovery nutrition and relapse prevention. Yoga can be another excellent coping strategy when a person begins experiencing drug cravings or thoughts of opiate abuse.

These are some of the many therapy options that can help you in your journey toward recovering from your opiate addiction. Choose a treatment program that offers the therapies that you most connect with and you will be setting yourself up for success in your recovery efforts.