A personality disorder is any condition which prevents an individual from properly relating to or engaging with his or her social environment. In plain terms, to suffer from a personality disorder is to be forever at odds with the world around you…which helps to explain why so many victims of the disease turn to drug and alcohol abuse as a means of self-medication. The obvious corollary, of course, is that no one can beat addiction without first getting intensive personality disorder treatment.

Addiction recovery has to be a holistic process. There are no partial victories in an addiction treatment center. If you’re going to get better, you’re going to have to get all-the-way better, in mind as well as in body. The best rehab facilities are those which employ dual diagnosis techniques to assess and address the full scope of their residents’ mental health. Given the stakes in the fight against substance abuse, you can’t afford anything less than that .