Dual Diagnosis

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder earlier was part of Anxiety Disorders but in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders it has been given a standing of its own. OCD has been a topic of comedy, parody, or horror in movies -Jack Nicholson’s character in As Good As It Gets, sitcoms like Monk, etc. It […]

The presence of a psychiatric ailment along with Addiction to Alcohol and Drugs is termed as Dual Diagnosis.A person under the influence of a substance behaves many times in such a manner that it seems as though he is suffering from a psychiatric illness like bipolar disorder or psychosis. Several times during withdrawals the hallucinations