Mental Health

Addiction and mental health concerns often go hand-in-hand. Our experience team provides evidence-based treatment and programs to help you on the road to recovery.

Inpatient Treatment

Our hospital offers treatment of addiction and mental health issues that often go hand-in-hand.

We provide relapse prevention and lifestyle management strategies, and discuss the skills, techniques and strategies needed to understand and manage dependency disorders. Our treatment approach includes therapy, stress management, relapse prevention, family and supporter engagement and medication.

Our specialised treatment for addiction addresses the root causes of the disease, including:

• Low self-esteem
• Anger
• Sadness
• Guilt/shame
• Abuse or trauma
• Abandonment (emotional or physical)

We place a strong focus on
 

• providing support without shame or judgment
• treating any trauma or illness perpetuating the addiction

We provide evidence-based treatment to help you manage your anxiety, and get well.

Inpatient Treatment

Our hospital offers treatment of addiction and mental health issues that often go hand-in-hand.

We provide relapse prevention and lifestyle management strategies, and discuss the skills, techniques and strategies needed to understand and manage dependency and/or mental health disorders. Our treatment approach includes therapy, stress management, relapse prevention, family and supporter engagement and medication.

Depression affects your ability to cope with physiological, genetic, psychological, social and demographic circumstances.

Abbotsford Private Hospital is one of few private services in Australia that offer specialist treatment for dissociative disorders.

The effectiveness of treatments for dissociative disorders has not been studied. Treatment options are based on case studies, not research. Generally speaking, treatment may take many years. Options may include:

• A safe environment – Doctors will try to get the person to feel safe and relaxed, which is enough to trigger memory recall in some people with dissociative disorders
• Psychiatric drugs – such as barbiturates
• Hypnosis – may help to recover repressed memories, although this form of treatment for dissociative disorders is considered controversial
• Psychotherapy – also known as ‘talk therapy’ or counselling, which is usually needed for the long term. Examples include cognitive therapy and psychoanalysis
• Stress management – since stress can trigger symptoms
• Treatment for other disorders – typically, a person with a dissociative disorder may have other mental health problems such as depression or anxiety. Treatment may include antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications to try to improve the symptoms of the dissociative disorder.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a particular set of reactions that can develop in people who have been through a traumatic event which threatened their life or safety, or that of others around them.