A note on co-occurring disorders

People suffering from addiction disorders can sometimes have co-occurring disorders, or simply "co-occurring problems".

It is often very difficult to determine if there was an order in the appearance of these disorders and addiction because unhealthiness tends to feed off of itself and worsen.

Grasshopper acknowledges that these factors also play a role in the development and continuation of addiction; however, it does not view them as separate from the treatment approach.

We find it important to make a special note on the co-occurrence of two specific disorders: Anxiety and Depression disorder:

"Clinical labels like anxiety and depression disorders carry significant, life-altering implications. We consider it crucial to differentiate between psychophysiology (clinical diagnosis) and natural emotions ("I am anxious and depressed")."

At Grasshopper Recovery, we believe that diagnosing and medicating someone for co-occurring disorders without informing them that recovering from addiction could lead to the diminishment or even complete disappearance of these afflictions constitutes medical malpractice.

"Grasshopper Philosophy does not discriminate. Rather, our human-first approach means that we encourage people to take co-occurring disorders into account, but not use them as causal relations for an expression of why they're not able to change their life. It teaches that everyone has the opportunity to recover from addiction."