Have you ever had a painful experience which has been too challenging to face that you have unconsciously buried it? Find out what is at the heart of trauma and what you can do to start dealing with it today. Many times trauma leads to addiction and a broad range of destructive behaviours and coping mechanisms. The next episode will tell you what addiction is and how it manifests into deeper areas of your persona and relationships.
If you found this video helpful in understanding trauma there are a number of related trauma articles from the blog that may be of interest to you complex post-trauma stress, causes of PTSD, childhood trauma and attachment trauma.
Recovery Direct operates Cape Town’s top rehab treatment centre for trauma care. The Centre focuses on resolving past traumas that debilitate and play out problematic behaviour patterns in clients lives including addiction, depression and anxiety related problems through an exclusive continuum of encouraging psychiatric care.
In relationships, it’s important to know what each person’s rights, roles and duties to the relationship are. If the rules are not clear, it leads to confusion, finger pointing and misplaced blame and growing resentments that could otherwise be avoided. Excessive blaming is unpleasant and can break down critical communications, even in long-standing relationships. Sadly,…
When it comes to addiction in the workplace, prevention is better than cure. Prevention and early detection and getting the individual the help that they need before it’s too late can save businesses a lot of time, money and productivity. What companies don’t understand about addiction is that by the time it starts becoming a problem…
Here are some great tips for families and supporters of people that are recovering from addiction, depression, chronic anxiety. We tried to make the list relatively short but failed. There is so much value in being a support to anyone coming out of a treatment environment. Initially you may need to bury your non-progressive feelings…
Sean O’Connor and Barry Tyson, founders of Mindful Drinking SA recently hosted Cape Town’s first Mindful Drinking Festival at the Kirstenbosch Stone Cottages. Well-timed on the back of “Sober October” the event that was attended by over 1000 visitors. The drawcard was a wide range of “non-alcoholic” or “alcohol-free” drinks that included “beers, wines, sparkling…
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) іѕ the оnѕеt оf a specific set of symptoms in response to аn еxtrеmеly traumatic event. Certain people will experience the same event differently depending on their personalities, background, experience, the frame of reference, trauma thresholds and many more variables. Much in the same way that we have a dіffеrеnt…
Psychotherapy, or so-called “talk therapy”, can reveal insights that victims of complex post-traumatic disorder (CPTSD) may not be consciously aware of. CPTSD is a complicated condition with several symptoms that appear to be identical, yet seem to exist separately and simultaneously in the same person. Defining these identical symptoms, why they co-exist and how they…