Detox explained

Detox – what is it?
Detoxification or detox for most of us is the removal of toxic substances from the body. It is mainly used to describe the period of withdrawal during when the body is returning to health after a prolonged period of using one or many substances. These days this can include alcohol, opiates, marijuana, amphetamines as well as prescription drugs such as antidepressants, pain medication and sleeping tablets.

“I first went in for a detox in 2003, South Pacific in Sydney. They took away one addiction and with their pills replaced it with another. And the environment,  it was scary. Do those psychiatrists really understand drug addiction? It was like a jail. At Palladium in Queensland, with its farm environment and Holistic approach, it was another world. I am now three years clear and will NEVER go back. The Fountainhead Method taught me to value my life”. Josephine Erbitter, Jan 2011

Why don’t allopathic methods recognise detox?
In regard to drug and alcohol detox the mainstream approach is to lock a client away and give them a muscle relaxant as it is assumed the body will eventually return to a state of health on its own. This is quite an assumption and does not deal with the reasons a person started using substance in the first place which must take place for long term success otherwise a person will always return to using when under stress and pressure.

“I have been through rehab 8 times; every time the periods between stints became smaller and smaller. I did Palladium once at the insistence of my family as I just thought it was going to be one more thing that didn’t work. What I didn’t realise is I needed to understand the WHY behind my drug use. Now I know and drugs are a thing I used to do”. David Houghton October 2009

Why Palladium Private does work for Detoxification
Clients suffering from addiction make up the third largest group attending these programs which makes sense as it is a natural progression  from depression and anxiety to addiction simply to cope with the symptoms.  Palladium Private’s approach to addiction is completely different to traditional methods that are low on results. Our solution has four major components:

• We only use Fountainhead Method ™, trained life coaches.  The Fountainhead Method®  developed here onsite is an educational technique that examines the way a human being suffering a stress based illness, such as depression or anxiety, is thinking and processing the events of their life. This is based on the core belief structures they mainly developed at an early age and how the processing of reality through these core belief structures or as we call them “lenses” causes unwanted behaviour and emotional symptoms. It unpacks where a person learnt their views on life as well as how they measure their self-worth. The information learnt in this process takes the sufferer’s incorrect or incomplete beliefs, which are based on misinterpretations of the past, and re-educates them to look at the same past experiences objectively and with the goal to understand, learn and grow from them which changes the underlying cause of their unwanted behaviour and emotions long term. The Fountainhead method is presently being used by 400 practitioners including psychologists and doctors throughout Australia.

• Journey Therapy supports it. Developed originally by American author Brandon bays similar to time line therapy but different in that the focuses is not only to identify your patterns of behavior and its origin-but to change the pattern then and there. Perhaps emotional clearing would be a simple way to express the process in which you are guided through. Your Journey Therapist will equip you with the tools to understand and release limitations. Be it anger, grief, anxiety, fear, or it could be as simple as a sense that there is something more you could be achieving for yourself and your life. No matter how deep the issue or how much you have struggled with it, there is always the possibility you can become powerful, free and fully self expressed. The purpose of Journey therapy is to  get to the  true root or cause of the issue, finding resolve and allowing you to live your life fully-free and empowered to create new possibilities.Many people say this was one of  the best parts of their program.

• It is underpinned by Mindfulness training which has existed for millennia but has only been explained scientifically in the last twenty years.  “Mindfulness produces positive effects on psychological well-being that extend beyond the time the individual is practicing it. Over the last three decades mindfulness  practices have been increasingly incorporated into programs, to take advantage of these benefits. A large body of research has established the effectiveness of these mindfulness-based interventions in reducing symptoms of a number of disorders, including anxiety , depression , substance abuse , eating disorders , and chronic pain , as well as improving well-being and quality of life. Mindfulness  involves the development of awareness of present-moment experience with a compassionate, non- judgmental stance .It has been suggested that this process is associated with a perceptual shift, in which one’s thoughts and feelings are recognized as events occurring in the broader field of awareness”    Harvard Medical school Boston MA 2010

• A highly nutritious organic diet to give the body the essential components it needs to fuel the mechanics of detoxification. This is combined with gentle exercise and massage to assist the body to move toxins out, we have a multitude of therapies to choose from for the physical change, but long term permanent change is always done with the first three components as the reasons why a person started using must be addressed.

“I have done a physical detox many times but never achieved the results i wanted, I now know what I needed was to combine this with what I like to call a mental or  emotional detox, I needed to look at how the way I thought affected my need to use drugs to cope with life!, the change was profound thanks to everyone ”
Ange  Smithe, May 2011

What the experts say
The Anti Depression Association of Australia (ADAA); recently interviewed author Michelle Mark who confirms this new approach to treatment for addiction : “When you are experiencing addiction, the real work needed to reduce it for the long term is not done by just addressing the physical addiction. This is a temporary solution at best. The real work is done by changing the root cause of that emotional response which substance is being used to cope with. Those who suffer from addiction must look beyond just the physical, and go back to the reasons why they started using in the first place. The Fountainhead Method™ shows you how to do this”.

Length of Stay-recommendation
Palladium Private Programs of 33  days are normally sufficient for the education of most addiction disorders. For addiction longer than five years, we recommend the full program.