If you’re looking for care for your mental health disorder or substance use struggles, you should explore inpatient treatment centers. Choosing the right treatment provider ensures you spend your time, efforts, and money on recovery programming that will truly change your life. But we know if can be tricky to know how rehab helps and what to look for in your treatment. Let’s walk through some basics that will help you make informed choices about your recovery.
What Are Inpatient Treatment Centers?
Inpatient treatment facilities are places for healing and recovery run by professionals in the areas of substance abuse and mental health. That is to say, you can enter inpatient treatment for a substance use disorder, mental health disorder, or joint issues. Further, residential inpatient rehab refers to a program where individuals live in an in-center facility for a period of time to receive comprehensive care and guidance.
A licensed and accredited treatment center like Royal Life Detox passes all the requirements of providing exceptional care to those who are hurting. Entering an inpatient rehab facility gets you started on your healing journey as you leave old habits in the past. Notably, we employ an incredible team of doctors, therapists, counselors, and case managers to support our guests in their recovery.
Inpatient Rehab vs Outpatient Rehab
You may have heard of both Inpatient treatment and outpatient treatment and wonder what the difference is. Simply put, they differ in amenities and recovery level. To explain, guests live in our residential inpatient center during this level of care, which is intensive! Because it’s an early stage of rehab, they spend focused time in therapy and counseling working to uproot their disorder. But in outpatient treatment, they return home and commute to sessions. As such, they spend reduced hours in treatment but still attend therapy and counseling sessions. The reduced hours also reflect the growth individuals have made during inpatient that now allows them more independence in their recovery.
Medical Detox and Inpatient Treatment
The first part of inpatient treatment for those with substances in their bodies is medical detoxification. It spans a few days (however many it takes, typically 4-8) of undergoing safe monitored detox to achieve base sobriety. Individuals who are looking for mental health treatment and don’t have substances in their body can skip this step. However, for those with substance addictions and co-occurring disorders, it’s important to get detox out of the way in a safe environment.
What Can Inpatient Rehab Facilities Help With?
Inpatient rehab centers offer hope of healing for a wide variety of health concerns. Thus, whatever you’re going through, we want to come alongside and offer support! Whether you struggle with a substance use disorder, mental health disorder, or both with a dual diagnosis, we can help. Accordingly, the people who become guests at our centers bring with them diverse backgrounds of many challenges. Some of the disorders we treat every day at our inpatient facilities are listed below.
Addiction Treatment
Addictions, whether to drugs or alcohol, are serious and life-threatening issues. Both the alcohol and drug addiction spectra follow patterns of misuse that can lead to severe addiction. For example, experimentation can lead to dependency and eventually a substance use disorder (SUD). What many people don’t realize is SUDs are brain disorders that cannot simply be quit on their own. For this reason, professional alcohol addiction rehab is the only sure way to improve a substance use disorder.
Alcohol Addiction
Alcohol addiction is a major issue around the globe, as alcohol is a popular substance with few restrictions on use. Notably, it’s easy to source in large quantities, even for young people. Yet alcohol addiction is one of the most dangerous brain disorders, as even undergoing withdrawal alone can be life-threatening. Long-term alcohol abuse can lead to alcohol use disorder (AUD), which is the most severe form of addiction.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is another prevalent issue around the world and in the United States. Drug use tends to have negative stigma around it; however, recreational drug experimentation is often encouraged and pressured. For example, young people may begin messing around with drugs in social settings, especially party drugs like MDMA or meth. Drug addiction rehab is the best solution if you find yourself dependent on drugs to get through each day.
Opioids
Opioids are painkiller medications that originally derive from the opium poppy plant. They can be natural, synthetic, or semi altered from the original ingredient. If you have ever heard of the opioid crisis, it refers to rampant drug overdoses from abuse of opioids. Some commonly abused opioids are fentanyl, heroin, oxycodone, hydromorphone, and codeine.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a central nervous system stimulant that is mostly used for a recreational high. Individuals may snort it or inject it into their veins. Although cocaine hydrochloride can be used as a medical sedative, use of street cocaine is illegal because it’s so addictive. Cocaine abuse destroys lives by causing dependency in the body.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are central nervous system depressants that calm and slow your system to reduce overactivity in the brain. Thus, medical conditions like anxiety disorders and narcolepsy can be prescribed benzodiazepines. However, people also enjoy abusing these drugs to feel relaxed or dissociated. Some popular benzo medications are Xanax, Valium, and Ativan.
Crystal Meth
Methamphetamine is a central nervous system stimulant that awakens and activates your system. As a result, you can experience greater focus, alertness, energy, and sociability. Stimulants have prescribed medical usage, such as for ADHD, but are often abused for their effects. For example, crystal meth is a lab-made alternative of meth that is purely used for a high. It is made by mixing strong ingredients (including antifreeze, battery acid, and drain cleaner) with meth to make crystal rocks.
Mental Health Disorder Treatment
We treat all mental health disorders at Royal Life Centers, whether you have a complex disorder or multiple diagnoses. In fact, if you struggle but don’t have a diagnosis yet, we are also able to provide one. This way, your treatment can be more tailored to your needs. Certainly, there are some mental disorders that are widespread in the population which many of our guests seek help for. These include anxiety, depression, trauma, and personality disorders.
Anxiety
Anxiety disorders are mood disorders with symptoms of panic, fear, anxious thoughts, overthinking, and physical distress. People who have an anxiety condition can struggle with a daily life free from extreme stress and dread. Anti-anxiety medication combined with therapy is the best treatment for anxiety disorder.
Depression
Depressive disorders are mood disorders with symptoms of sadness, hopelessness, numbness, and fatigue. During a depressive episode, you will likely feel the desire to self-isolate in your pain. Often, your appetite changes, and your desire for sleep increases. Depression can be improved through antidepressant medications and therapy.
Trauma
People who experience trauma have gone through a distressing experience. When they are not capable of processing through all their feelings and emotions, they may develop a trauma-related disorder. Much of trauma gives feelings of being out of control and in danger. One well-known trauma condition is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Fortunately, we offer comprehensive trauma-focused treatment programs at Royal Life Centers.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are mental health disorders that affect personality, mood, behavior, and thinking patterns. Additionally, individuals often struggle to know themselves and form strong relationships. Some examples of personality disorders are narcissistic PD, borderline PD, schizotypal PD, and antisocial PD. To learn how to manage your symptoms and improve your quality of life, treatment is important.
What Is Inpatient Treatment Like?
Residential inpatient treatment is not a scary process. Although you will be temporarily living away from home, you will reside in our comfortable facilities with 24/7 professional support. We aim for Royal Life Centers to act as a home away from home. Thus, we offer state-of-the-art amenities, chef-catered meals, and a wide range of therapy activities to fill your time. You’ll also receive daily free time to recharge or socialize with other guests who have the same healing mission. If you’re wondering what daily life at our residential treatment centers looks like, these are the benefits we offer:
Safe and Supportive Living Environment
We guarantee our Royal Life Centers are safe, encouraging, and supportive environments throughout your entire treatment. Battling addiction and/or mental health challenges is stressful, and your system can stay on high alert for months until you receive help. Thus, we know our guests need peaceful and sheltered locations in which to heal. Our goal is to help regulate your nervous system as you work towards overall wellness improvements. Rest assured that every peer living in the center also has the same desire for safety as you.
Expert and Caring Staff of Professionals
We have multiple goals when it comes to caring for our guests. First, we want to ensure you find healing and recovery while also experiencing rest and restoration. Additionally, our professional staff is available 24/7 to answer questions, attend to any pain or discomfort, and walk you through your service plan. But we are also a staff of empathetic and understanding humans who want to ensure you find wellness during treatment. All of our guests bring heavy baggage with them that we help them release. Simply, Royal Life Centers are a safe place to set down your past and start walking towards your future.
Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
Each of our guests’ programming includes traditional therapy, which is evidence-based and proven to yield powerful results. One traditional therapy methodology is behavioral therapy, which helps individuals learn better thinking, feeling, and behaving patterns. You will learn these skills in addition to trigger management and emotional regulation throughout consistent psychotherapy sessions.
Holistic Therapy
Further, each of our guests’ programming also includes holistic therapy, which is alternative healing practices for total-body wellness. As you participate in a wage range of holistic activities and experiences, you’ll find mind, body, and soul restoration.
What Happens After Inpatient Rehab?
Inpatient addiction treatment is a valuable stage where you will learn the basic foundation of how to heal your disorders. After inpatient treatment, you won’t be stripped of support. Instead, you can transition into our more independent level of care, outpatient treatment. We offer three flexible program tracks to choose from. Finally, after graduating from outpatient rehab, we will still support you in our aftercare stage.
Simply put, there’s no reason to resist seeking help for the challenges that are blocking you from having a healthy and successful life. Reserve a place in one of our Royal Life Centers’ inpatient treatment centers now to start the full recovery process
