ZwavelStream Team | Mental Health Leaders

Mental health treatments available to you at Zwavelstream clinic

At Zwavelstream clinic, we aim to form a healthy support system for those who need it most. Your wellbeing comes first to us, and therefore we open up our doors to you. Our primary goal is to provide effective treatment and support in a de-institutionalised setting that gets rid of the entire stigma. We offer all our patients programs centred around them, which includes integrative healing for holistic wellness.

The medical leaders at Zwavelstream clinic help people who struggle with mental illness through various treatments and support systems.

The treatments include but aren't limited to:

• Mixed therapeutic procedures and treatment programmes
• Adolescent and youth programs
• Frequently encountered mental health conditions.
• Group sessions
• Individual sessions
• Physical therapy
• Recreational activities

Benefits of group sessions

Group therapy holds numerous benefits for people who struggle with mental health conditions. During group therapy, people come together, which forms the foundation of your support, under the guidance of a well-trained group therapist.

Below are five significant benefits you will receive during group therapy:

• It helps you realise that you're not alone in this.
• It facilitates receiving and giving support to one another.
• Group therapy can help you find your 'voice'.
• It also helps an individual to relate to others in the same circumstance.
• Last but not least, group therapy serves as a safety net.

Benefits of individual sessions

Individual sessions serve as an excellent resource for people who struggle with mental health disorders. During these individual sessions, people learn to cope with their condition, which sets them on a path to wellness.

Individual sessions are considered helpful for a couple of reasons. The benefits include:

• Greater self-awareness
• In-depth self-exploration
• Identifying boundaries
• Improved communication skills
• Healthy coping skills
• Benefits of physical therapy

There's a distinct link between being physically active and a healthy mental state. Researchers have found that the effect of exercise is comparable to that of anti-depressive medications. After physical activity, the brain releases feel-good endorphins and along with training comes a positive body image.

Physical therapy improves patient's coping strategies and quality of life. Some of the benefits of physical therapy include:

• It reduces symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression.
• Improves the quality of your sleep.
• Exercise tends to improve self-esteem and perceived self-worth.
• After your workout, you feel accomplished and successful.
• Exercise improves brain functionality.
• And it generally improves your mood.

Recreational activities at Zwavelstream clinic

Zwavelstream Clinic is set in the Bronberg, with lush vegetation and manicured gardens. Here you can enjoy a picnic on nature's doorstep or socialise among more than 120 bird species and various wildlife. For the more active people, we offer recreational activities such as volleyball, table tennis or putting on the mini-green.

You can also enjoy quality time at the library or watch a DVD at your leisure. Our ethos integrates nature because we believe it to be one of the world's best doctors. The vast, beautiful landscape at Zwavelstream clinic offers you a peaceful and tranquil experience whilst you receive first-class support and treatment. Our staff makes a difference!

According to the opinions of specialists in this field, the psychological state of millennials can be likened to a mental health crisis. Individuals from this generation have markedly higher reports of stress, anxiety, and depression than generations that came before, like the baby boomers and generation X.

Not only is this crisis affecting general wellbeing, but it has a significant impact on the millennial workforce, who have high levels of absenteeism, or the equally detrimental antithesis – working despite having their function impaired by mental illness. The result is a generation of young adults with high potential, being held back by the limitations of mental illness.

Mindfulness

Extensive research has shown how meditation can positively affect mental health. It reduces anxiety, promotes better sleep, improves concentration, and lifts the mood.

Mindful meditation as a tool for combatting stress and anxiety works very well, and is implemented by our psychologists.

Coping

When it comes to navigating the often stormy waters of mental illness on a day-to- day basis, adequate management and organisational skills are very important.

Our occupational therapists help patients develop and institute strategies for coping and self-care that are healthy and serve their goal of achieving and maintaining a sense of mental wellbeing.

Social Connections

People with mental illness often feel isolated in their struggle. By providing group therapy sessions, we give patients the opportunity to learn about their condition from different perspectives, and to share their experiences with people who understand what they are going through.

We also encourage visits from family and friends as a way to establish and maintain healthy relationships.

Policy Planning

Our mental health leaders are effective advocates for patients struggling to lead a fulfilling life with mental illness. Work is an especially big factor in this, where policies are not always helpful to someone in their current state.

Absenteeism is a real problem, but so is working even though general functioning is reduced. In these matters, communication is opened between our mental health specialists and employers, to try and develop policies that are inclusive and diverse in order to best serve people with mental illness.