By: Keleigh Anderson
I am a graduate of the fairly new Post Graduate Concurrent Disorders Program at Mohawk College. I didn’t know what that term meant until researching the program. Turns out, I am not alone. To clarify, Concurrent Disorders is a term describing a person experiencing both a mental health issue(s) and addiction(s) simultaneously.
How does one develop a Concurrent Disorder?
It may be more common and easier than you think. It is becoming more and more recognized that mental health and addiction go hand in hand. The question is which came first; the chicken or the egg, the addiction or the mental health issue. The development of a Concurrent Disorder may happen in one of three ways.
- The Common Factor Model is when a person experiences both a substance use disorder and has a mental health diagnosis at the same time. For example, a person experiences anxiety and uses marijuana to cope
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