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Case Study: Unit 4 covers disorders that, on the surface, may seem very different from one another. Substance Use Disorders and other addictive disorders obviously can take control over one's life; however, eating disorders have the same potential to occupy much of a person's thoughts and actions. I would like for you to ponder the similarities of these two sets of disorders and consider the potential difficulty in breaking free from them.
In this post, you are applying the knowledge you gained from chapters 8 & 11 and demonstrating a deeper understanding of that material by considering the similarities of the disorders and their effects on individual's lives. It can be easy for people to judge others, but it is important that we understand how difficult it can be to live with one of these disorders and eventually break free from them. Many underestimate the work and effort it takes to deal with addiction and/or eating disorders.
One of the things that I often heard in the course of treating individuals for addiction was that there was no way I can understand what it was like to deal with addiction, since I've never suffered from one of these disorders, and therefore, the lack of understanding would prevent me from successfully treating someone. Although this conclusion is not necessarily logically valid, I do think that, given the challenges people face when trying to change addictive behavior, it important to understand the nature of addiction as much as possible.
Question: in 350words or more Let's pretend that you're a therapist for someone with an eating disorder or addictive disorder. They want to know that you understand on some level what it's like to deal with one of these disorders. How would you describe that experience? How would you characterize how these disorders can control your life? In what other ways would you demonstrate an empathetic understanding of their experience? How does understanding the controlling nature of these disorders affect the treatment process? How would this aspect of these disorders affect treatment differently than other disorders that we've already discussed? Is there anything else you think is important for people more generally to understand about these disorders?