Boredom Management Stafford VA
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents
Fredericksburg, VA
(540) 373-6876
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Men, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired, German
Fredericksburg, VA
Substance abuse , Halfway house
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days)
Special Programs/Groups
Men
Language Services
Spanish
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient, Partial hospitalization/day treatment
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Pregnant/postpartum women, Women, DUI/DWI offenders, Criminal justice clients
Substance abuse , Halfway house, Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Outpatient, Partial hospitalization/day treatment
Special Programs/Groups
Women, Men
Substance abuse , Detoxification
Types of Care
Hospital inpatient, Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Outpatient, Partial hospitalization/day treatment
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders
Substance abuse , Detoxification, Methadone Maintenance, Methadone Detoxification, Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with HIV/AIDS, Pregnant/postpartum women, Women, Men
Boredom Management
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Boredom Management
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For many people who use marijuana, boredom is a trigger to smoke. Sometimes it is boredom associated with a tedious or uninteresting job. Perhaps it is a way to fill weekday evening hours after dinner but before bedtime. At other times, getting stoned is a way to spend a weekend when nothing else has been planned.
Boredom is a complex and interesting emotion. Many different feelings may be associated with it. For instance, boredom may be accompanied by anxiety, apathy, irritability, or lethargy. It’s not a really strong emotion; it just kind of nags at you. It can sneak up because it’s hard to identify.
Discussing boredom and how to handle it can make you aware of its influence on your behavior and prepare you to cope with it.
A Boring Story
Jan was in her mid-30s when she began to think she needed to quit smoking pot. Sometimes she enjoyed it, but after 15 years of regular use Jan was unhappy with herself for smoking so much marijuana. She began every day with a hit and smoked every hour or two throughout the day.
Several times in the past few years she had tried to cut back to smoking just in the evenings and on weekends. A few times she kept to her limits, but inevitably she’d inch her way back up. When she thought about it, she recognized that she slipped back to getting stoned because she couldn’t handle the boredom she felt when she was straight. Her job wasn’t stimulating; she was a reception...
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Featured Facilities
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Located in Orange County, California, Connections Mental Health is a residential treatment center that focuses on treating a range of mental health conditions. It treats a maximum of 6 clients at a time to create individualized care. With compassion at the core of its approach, the team provides a comprehensive evaluation before treatment to customize clients’ care plans to meet a diversity of needs.Mental Health Treatment Connections Mental Health can help those with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder (BPD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), schizophrenia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and suicidal and homicidal ideation. Connections Mental Health additionally has a 24/7 supervised eating disorder program backed by a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, dietitians, and medical doctors. They offer a special program for people with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).Comprehensive TherapiesConnections Mental Health uses 1:1, group, and family-based therapy (FBT) to help clients recover. FBT restores healthy habits and builds open communication within the family. They offer evidence-based therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and motivational interviewing. Connections Mental Health offers medication management based on their clinical assessment. They incorporate the Seeking Safety program into treatment. Seeking Safety creates a safe space to develop coping skills, emotion regulation, and resilience through therapies that focus on healing current feelings and behaviors, not past ones.Holistic HealingConnections Mental Health utilizes holistic tools as part of their rehab process like yoga, mindfulness, and meditation, and other modalities like art therapy, to complement the recovery process. These therapies can help clients develop coping strategies, reduce stress, and improve overall well-being. Connection Mental Health’s Orange County residential home has a backyard with comfortable seating and a firepit.
Addiction is a disease that no one should have to deal with alone. It is imperative that citizens of a city or county have access to top quality addiction treatment services. People from all walks of life can be susceptible to developing a substance use disorder in response to trauma they have endured, or lifestyle circumstances begetting maladaptive coping mechanisms.When a person is in the grips of addiction, they can become isolated and unable to see their condition for what it is—an illness that can be managed.Whether you are in Nashville or in the greater Nashville area such as Brentwood, Franklin, Hendersonville, etc, at Southeast Addiction, our outpatient addiction treatment programs offer something for individuals of all levels of commitment.
Sanctuary at Cherry Hill is a medically proven recovery facility that provides comprehensive treatment for substance use and co-occurring disorders. Sanctuary Health utilizes Everlasting Recovery, an approach that aligns our client’s recovery journey directly with their life, to extend recovery into a client’s lifestyle. Our unique approach establishes treatment as a daily practice, refocuses an individual away from addiction towards a healthier existence, and makes sustainable recovery achievable. Due to this integration, each client begins Everlasting Recovery by assessing their performance in various aspects of their lives via the bio, psycho, and social model. This initial assessment allows our therapists to craft a personal recovery program, which allows the greatest opportunity for our clients to suppress addiction and adopt recovery as a permanent identity. When attending Sanctuary at Cherry Hill, our clients will establish life skills, implement daily routines for lifestyle recovery, and ignite a purpose for achieving better their lives. Through accomplishing these tasks, our clients will achieve sustainable recovery.