Misdiagnoses can prevent you from getting the help you need. We often find that post-traumatic stress disorder and complex post-traumatic stress disorder play a large role in the manifestation of an illness. Learn about the relationship between trauma addiction and how misdiagnoses can skew the picture and how this picture can become clearer when the right diagnosis is in place.
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As a treatment centre, it is often hard to accurately portray how differently we treat patients and how this work can so dramatically and positively shift the lives of people that we have the privilege of helping on a day to day basis. Today we received an email that candidly alludes to many treatment touchpoints…
Fear can take many forms and too often people find themselves inadvertently suffering from the fall out of living with the consequences of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome or even Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. How you deal with any stressful experience and the support structures around you can have an enormous impact on your self…
Toxic masculinity is simply one of the many ways in which complex patriarchy systems still damage the progression of male roles in modern society today. The inherent push to win, seeking the pursuit of power, status or enforced dominance. The acceptance of anger, violence, unemotional detachment, sexually aggressive behaviours are just some of the “tough…
The topic of substance use issues is never far from the media’s attention. Whether it’s an illegal drug bust or a Drive-Alive advert expounding the evils of drinking and driving, we are exposed day in and day out to the subject and warned of the dangers. Why is it then that in spite of the…
Seldom is the case where an addict or alcoholic will willingly admit themselves for a first time into rehab. Family and loved ones invariably reach a crisis point with the alcoholic or addict and seek help without the knowledge or consent of the substance abuser. The Truth One of the hardest parts of operating an…
The term “tough love” was first coined in 1968 by Bill Milliken when he authored the book “Tough Love”, and since then one of the key concepts adopted by thousands of individuals as the basis for treating addiction and it is sincerely misguided. Bill Milliken’s description of the tough love approach included: “I don’t care…