Non-Drug Issues

Although Channah Thailand is, primarily, a Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre we also take clients whose primary goal is to deal with other disorders. We can do this because we work on the basis that “Drugs are not usually the problem but are misused as a temporary answer”. Once you start dealing with the underlying issues, the need for drugs or alcohol reduce significantly.

Our approach, which blends CBT with physical, emotional and spiritual development, has been successful working with a range of problems including:

Anxiety

Modern society has been called the age of anxiety and for the past three decades more than a third of people report anxiety problems at some point in their lives. 

Everybody knows what it is to feel anxious. Anxiety rouses you to action; it gears you to face a threatening situation. In general it helps you to cope. 

However if you have an anxiety disorder, this normally helpful emotion can do the opposite – it can keep you from coping and can disrupt your daily life. An anxiety disorder can make you feel anxious most of the time without any apparent reason or the feelings may be so uncomfortable that to avoid them, you stop doing certain things. You may have occasional bouts of anxiety that are so intense they terrify you and immobilize you. 

Depression

Depression sufferers have an overall negative view of themselves, the world around them and what is likely to happen to them in the future. These beliefs are called “thinking errors”.

Using CBT as an information processing model, clients are shown that it is not what they experience but how they interpret it which determines how they are. CBT in the treatment of depression has statistically proven to change brain chemistry without medication, and is endorsed right across the board from within the British National Health Service and throughout the private sector. 

Low Self Esteem

When the opinions we have about ourselves and our overall evaluation of self worth is negative this correlates highly with low self esteem

Self image is often described as a circus mirror which dramatically twists size and shape into ungainly proportions which in no way resemble how a person actually appears. This self perception of how we view ourselves, our perception of how others see us, and the thoughts and beliefs we have about ourselves, our world, and our future, affect three areas:- 

1. Self respect 
2. Self-worth and 
3. Self acceptance.

The self esteem quotient is the distance between how we see our ideal self in contrast to our real self. The greater the distance between the ideal and the real self, the lower the self esteem. The smaller the gap between the two the higher their self-esteem quotient.

When clients hold negative beliefs about themselves, which keep them from achieving the goals they set by being critical, punishing, and negatively evaluating their abilities, this leads to poor self-esteem.

CBT believes that it is not what we experience but how we interpret it that determines how we are. An information processing model where changing our interpretation of ourselves, the world, the future, changes how you a person feels about themselves.  

Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are not really about food at all. They are about internal emotional distress which has led to a dysfunctional relationship with food. This maybe about control; relief from stress or a search for comfort. A factor that is common in most eating disorders is that of body image and a desire to be thin. This is not helped by western advertising and the promotion of thin equating to happiness and success. 

Recovery from Eating Disorders is always possible even after years of illness - never lose sight of this. YOU CAN GET WELL. We are certain of this. 

However you will need help. At Channah we will work with you around the physical and emotional aspects of your illness. 

Anger Management

People with problems controlling their anger have difficulty coping with pressures from the outside world, other people and the way these external stressors impact on them. Day to day problems, negative thoughts and beliefs, and interpersonal relationship problems are interrelated because an increase in stress-related tension also increases the likelihood of anger and aggression.

There is a broad spectrum on the anger continuum between irritability and anger caused by the belief that life is unfair, and that someone has violated our strong internal standards of behaviour at one end of the continuum, and hostility and uncontrollable rage at the other.

But all these anger problems have the same ingredients

1. The way we interpret our experience.

2. The way we recognise, express and control anger.

3. The errors in communication with others.

How do we work?

CBT use psychological approaches which are based on scientific, clinically proven research. Treatment for most of these conditions works by both improving those resources which help the client to cope and, at the same time diminishing the sense of low self esteem. Channah provides you with an individualised programme using a combination of groups, individual sessions, physical fitness training and relaxation sessions to reduce negative thinking and facilitate belief change, and core belief work. This is coupled with a programme of fitness training and a good healthy diet to improve fitness and esteem around body image.

The programme is supported by being in a beautiful, secluded and peaceful environment far away from the temptations and pressures of modern living. You will be living in a community with your therapists and fellow clients which gives you a constant source of encouragement and positive reinforcement. Our completion rate of over 96% is testament to the programme working.

You will also receive the same level of aftercare support when you leave Channah; 12 weeks of 1:1 therapy with a specialist therapist.