A professional mental health clinic provides treatment solutions for people who suffer from treatable mental disorders. Such disorders usually carry trauma along with them and can include a variety of anxiety- or depression-based disorders that can potentially derail an individual’s life. Beethoven Recovery Centre offers a professional mental health clinic for people living in and around Gauteng. Our clinic admits people of 16 years of age and older – with a complete evaluation once admitted to accurately identify the specific mental disorder and set a course for tailored treatment solutions.
When it comes to the wellbeing of your mind, it should take priority. Physical ailments will, naturally, slow you down and keep you from doing specific physical tasks. However, mental illnesses can take you down a dark and unexplored pathway – one from which you must find a road back to some semblance of control over your life. Beethoven Recovery Centre can assist you to find a way back to taking control of your life and not falling victim to your specific mental disorder. Today, we talk about the types of mental disorders that can be treated at a professional mental health clinic.
Treatable Mental Disorders
Common Mental Health Disorders/Conditions:
- Anxiety Disorders: These disorders can pop up when a person finds themselves in a consistent state of worry about what is to come. This unhealthy worry about things that are out of a person’s control, can lead to the development of generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, a wide array of phobias, and the big daddy of anxiety disorders – PTSD. These disorders are common among adults who live in South Africa, especially in Gauteng, where the crime rates are excessively high.
- Mood Disorders: Mood disorders usually stem from consistent behavioural patterns that are destructive and negative. Such patterns include being consistently sad, losing hope, or refusing to see any positive elements in your life. Such behaviour can lead to the development of depression. Bipolar disorder also counts under mood disorders and can be genetically inherited. Seasonal affective disorder is yet another prime example – having a direct impact on a person’s overall mood during specific times of the year. This can be related to trauma, as the person might have experienced a traumatic event during that time of year.
- Psychotic Disorders: Psychotic disorders include schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Both can be genetically inherited and could cause major disruptions in a person’s life. These disorders are widely misinterpreted, as most people refer to them as multiple personality disorder, which is completely wrong. Schizophrenia can affect how a person thinks, behaves, and/or feels about certain elements in their life. This can lead to a complete disconnect from their own reality and includes symptoms such as delusions, unstructured thinking, and hallucinations.
- Personality Disorders: These include borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. These disorders are also commonly misunderstood, as introverted people simply do not find comfort in a crowd of people and would do anything to get out of it as soon as possible. Borderline personality disorder’s symptoms include struggling with emotions, an increasing fear of abandonment, struggling with forming healthy relationships, and acting on impulse rather than thinking things through.
- Eating Disorders: Yet another prime example of a set of disorders that are misunderstood by the public view. These disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder to name a few examples. Once again, most of these disorders are trauma related. Binge-eating disorder can be developed from the dopamine release of eating specific foods when faced with anxiety, stress, or depression. In essence, it becomes a coping mechanism to deal with such emotions rather than eating healthy and proportionate meals at designated times.
- Substance Abuse Disorders: Tying in with eating disorders, these disorders start as a form of coping for people who deal with constant stress, anxiety, or depression. Most people will start smoking nicotine-based products to relieve stress, while others will resort to the overconsumption of alcoholic beverages to either prove a point or be accepted within social circles.
Beethoven Recovery Centre is your first choice when it comes to a professional mental health clinic near Gauteng. Please browse our website for details on our approach to treatment and feel free to contact us directly if you have any questions regarding our methods to psychiatric treatment. Take the hand that reaches out to you and take back control of your life with us on your side.