Value of Recovered Clients Getting Support for Physical Health

When an individual has had challenges with addiction in the past, their physical health often suffers. In treatment at Reviving You Recovery, clients are supported in a way that helps them heal physically. This teaches clients the skills that they need to be successful in their recovery from addiction, improve their mental health, and have a better quality of life after treatment. However, rebuilding physical health looks different for each individual. Therefore, while it is important for health to be considered, it is also valuable that it is integrated in a way that helps each person to recognize its value and adapt their life to care for their health needs physically, emotionally, and mentally.

Impact of Addiction on Physical Health

Addiction causes a variety of physical health challenges. This includes increasing a person’s risk of heart disease, lung disease, stroke, and various forms of cancer. In addition, many individuals who struggle with addiction also develop mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety.

Finally, individuals who are addicted to drugs or alcohol commonly participate in high-risk activities, which has an impact on their health physically and mentally.

While every person will be affected in a unique way, the physical health issues related to addiction are often severe. As a result, when an individual enters treatment, they are commonly in poor health. In addition, individuals often suffer long-term health consequences of addiction.

Importance of Physical Health in Recovery

Fortunately, individuals can begin the healing process in treatment. When they do, they learn skills to maintain their recovery through adequate self-care. This helps individuals to improve their stress management and increase their overall mental health. While not all impacts of addiction can be reversed, individuals can and do feel a difference in treatment programs that support their physical health as one piece of healing from addiction.

Maintaining Recovery With Self-Care

When a person is addicted to drugs or alcohol, their brain is hijacked to direct them towards using drugs or consuming alcohol more. The changes that occur in the brain are in the pleasure-seeking part of the brain. Prior to addiction, these circuits are used to help individuals care for their needs by feeling good about spending time with others, exercising, and other self-care activities. Due to the impact of drugs and alcohol on the brain, addiction adjusts these circuits to make substance use feel better than self-care.

As a result, many individuals need to learn how to care for their needs when recovering from addiction. Once self-care is established, a person is able to heal their mind and body. This helps them to maintain patterns that are healthy for their physical health. However, this also improves their ability to maintain their recovery as they are finding ways healthy ways to feel good that are not drugs or alcohol.

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Stress Management

Addiction and stress are closely tied together. For many, substance use is a method of stress management. However, through substance abuse and addiction, many individuals end up with increased stress. Improving and supporting physical health offers individuals a chance to learn a new way to manage stress.

Managing stress is complex. Each person needs to find ways that help them to decrease the stress in their bodies. For many, exercise or breathwork is highly effective. This is because physical health and stress are also connected. When people care for their physical health, they also improve their body’s ability to manage stress and provide a healthy outlet for the stress they experience.

Mental Health

Many individuals struggle with a combination of addiction and mental health challenges. Therefore, it is important that their mental health is supported in recovery. However, physical health and mental health are also connected.

female client during a treatment program for Benzodiazepine Addiction

When an individual improves their physical health, their mental health will also often improve. Therefore, in recovery, individuals who care for their own physical health are more likely to have better mental health and be more successful in their recovery from addiction.

Physical Health Support in Treatment

Supporting physical health in treatment can be difficult. However, it is often a combination of helping clients to heal their minds and bodies while teaching them skills that offer them support both in treatment and in recovery. In treatment for addiction at Reviving You Recovery, clients are supported physically in detox and treatment. They are supported through good nutrition and assistance that helps them to feel better immediately.

However, physical health support also includes education. Clients learn self-care skills that span into their lives after treatment. These will vary for each person. However, they often include learning nutritional skills, stress management, and understanding how to build self-care routines that they can use when they return home from treatment.

Reviving You Recovery helps clients to heal from addiction in many ways, including getting support for their physical health. We help our clients to understand that addiction has impacted their lives and bodies. Then, we help our clients to heal by rebuilding their health. This includes learning to reconnect with themselves and their community. We understand that healing from addiction is not simple. Each individual is unique, and therefore, treatment for each person needs to be adjusted to fit their needs physically, mentally, and emotionally. If you know someone who you believe to be a good fit for our program or would like to learn more about addiction treatment at Reviving You Recovery, please call us today at (951) 723-7598.