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Young adults and dual diagnosis – When mental health intersects with addiction

Young adults and dual diagnosis – When mental health intersects with addiction. What is a mental illness. A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. . Mental illness by the numbers.

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Young adults and dual diagnosis – When mental health intersects with addiction

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  1. Young adults and dual diagnosis – When mental health intersects with addiction

  2. What is a mental illness A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. 

  3. Mental illness by the numbers • 1 in 4 adults have a diagnosable mental illness • 1 in 5 young people aged 13-18 have a diagnosable mental illness • Half of all mental illnesses begin by the age of 14 • Three quarters of mental illnesses begin by age 24.

  4. Cause • Diathesis Stress Model Genetic Predisposition + Stress and trauma mental illness and/or substance use

  5. Substance use and mental illness

  6. Substance use and mental illness

  7. Why does this matter? Substance use worsens mental health symptoms Co-occurring disorders are much more difficult to diagnose Substances interfere with medications If only one of the two disorders is treated, the person is not likely to improve

  8. Cannabis and Psychosis • Psychosis: Loss of contact with reality • Hallucinations • Delusions • Paranoia • THC, the chemical in cannabis that affects the way you feel and think • Some studies link cannabis use with an earlier or more severe onset of psychosis

  9. What helps? • Harms reduction approach • Housing First • Assertive Community Treatment • Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment

  10. Treatment

  11. Real life dual diagnosis – Nate Cannon

  12. NAMI Minnesota • Provides education, support and advocacy for people with mental illnesses and their families. • 1-888-NAMI-HELPS or 651-645-2948 • namihelps.org or namihelpsyouth.org • Running on a mind rewired by Jennifer Cannon www.runningrewired.com

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