National Alcohol Awareness Month was established in 1987 by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD). It is an annual opportunity to raise awareness about the risks of alcoholism and other health complications related to drinking too much alcohol. This National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) estimates that more than 14…
Depression and other mental health issues can make you feel sad and sluggish. As a result, you may avoid socializing. Even during a joyful time of the year, you still feel sad. These feelings are common to people suffering from depression. That’s why many people consider going to dual diagnosis treatment centers for help. There…
Just because you have an addiction, that doesn’t mean that you’re precluded from suffering depression. By that same token, if you’re dealing with PTSD, you aren’t precluded from dealing with alcoholism. For people who have both a substance abuse disorder as well as a mental illness, it’s important to find the right kind of rehabilitation…
After detox, we don’t just send you back into the world. That can be too difficult a transition for many. You just got clean and sober after all of those toxins were (literally) taken out of your life. Then it becomes time to replace them with something. That’s what we can do here at Iris…
The practice of massaging has been around for centuries. It was first used for medicinal purposes and continues to be utilized for its multitude of healing properties. Since then, it has flourished in popularity, especially as our stressful lifestyles demand restoration. But with an increasing amount of responsibilities and tasks in our daily lives, there…
The word “hypnosis” may conjure a gimmicky image, but hypnotherapy in reality is not at all as it is portrayed in entertainment. In hypno-therapy, you are led into (or lead yourself into) a hypnotic induction phase to get into a trance–a meditative focused state–to absorb words of encouragement or positive images in a potent way….
Of the questions we’re often asked is, “what does a holistic drug rehab actually do”? People sometimes hear the word “holistic” and associate that with a negative connotation, as too many have abused the word in the past. Here at Iris Healing, it just means that we offer a multidisciplinary approach in which we treat…
There’s more to treating depression than just therapy. Sure, that’s part of what we offer at Iris Healing, but we have many other ways to provide depression treatment in Los Angeles. We don’t believe that you should just treat the body, or just treat the mind – we believe that, for a person to be…
People who are dealing with mental health and substance abuse feel trapped. As they wish to recover, they may have to go on a complex journey to address their depression, bipolar disorder, and other mental health issues. This is where our dual diagnosis treatment center in California become useful for those who wish to recover fully. …
One of the challenges for trauma healing retreats today; is the reluctance of people who have experienced trauma to seek out help. They simply want to avoid reliving the event. They want to forget about it and move on. However, as evidence-based research shows, attempting to shut off the feelings of the trauma will only…