Asking for help can be a challenging process. We know that we need help but the words don’t always come easily. By the time we’ve gathered the courage to ask for help, the situation is most likely to have reached a critical point. This video takes you through the process of how to communicate that you need help, that life has become unmanageable and you cannot go on alone.
This article is aimed at a broad INTERNET audience and is not a substitute for personal advice from a medical doctor or addiction counsellor. Disrupting chronic alcohol or drug usage without professional detoxification and emotion-management is a strenuous, risky and potentially fatal undertaking. If you are determined to attempt home detox or addiction recovery on…
Mental health conditions seldom appear unexpectedly. More often than not, close relatives and friends and often affected individuals themselves identify changes or feelings that something is wrong in their cognitive thinking patterns, internal feelings or behaviours before an actual diagnosable issue progresses into a clear-cut case. Here are some of the early warning signs of…
Stigmas around drug addiction cause society in general to vilify illicit drug users. However, stigmas cause people to ignore the fact that far wider reaching addictions exist in over the counter medications and prescription medications. Remember at some stage most illicit drugs start off as legal over the counter medications. [su_row] [su_column size=”1/2″] To highlight…
Do you pop a pill to calm the nerves before a stressful meeting? Maybe to help you sleep better? Or does it just ease off the day’s worries? The temporary relief that calming pills provide is alluring but the side-effects are dangerous. Feeling spaced out the next day, forgetting things and needing to take more…
Recovery Direct Treatment Centres have recently awarded certificate of membership with Cape Town Tourism as premium accommodated destination for mental health treatment centre in Cape Town.
Alcohol has been socially acceptable in most cultures around the globe for centuries. Although it is mostly used in moderation, the prevailing alcohol usage is still very high and has very harmful consequences for society. Efforts to abolish it have not been successful. It is, however, a substance which is controlled and monitored by authorities…