Do you want to get to understand addiction better? Are you or is someone you love suffering from an addiction? Learn about the complex interplay between our brain, behaviour and addiction and what you can do about it.
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At least 15 percent of South Africans are said to have a drug problem, according to the country’s Central Drug Authority. According to an article published on Parent24, we’ve gone from 8 787 people admitted for drug treatment in 2016 in SA to 10 047 in 2017. This video illustrates problem of addiction in South…
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…
Abuse does not always have to be physical; sometimes the deepest scars we wear are emotional ones. Psychological abuse can be subtle and underhanded but its effects, devastating. Also referred to as emotional or mental abuse, psychological abuse feels like you are continuously walking around on eggshells or, at worst going crazy (a event frequently…
As of 18 September 2018, cannabis has been ruled legal to consume and cultivate by the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Cannabis can now be used at home even though the amount has not been specified and that police do need to consider circumstances and make reasonable judgements between personal use and distribution. In the ruling,…
PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is usually not related to transitory incident types that most of us expect to happen at some point in the course of our lifes, and are normally dealt with in a reasonably expedient manner. However, due to our diversity, PTSD can be diagnosed after any event that provokes prolonged periods of…
Kris Gage pushes back on the social norm of romantic, possessive love, and exposes it for a co-dependent myth. The romance version is that your soulmate will somehow become responsible for your negative emotions and make you happy. The codependent myth is very popular, because it promises so much — i.e., that our partners will love us…