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Experiencing anxiety is very common, however, when these sporadic episodes of feeling anxious and worried become more intense and more regular, anxiety can begin to seriously affect your mental health and well-being and even lead to addiction.
At Nova Recovery rehab centre in Scotland, we help people who are suffering from long periods of anxiety and panic attacks alongside severe drug or alcohol addiction. Our recovery model focuses on the biological and psychological responses to stress, anxiety, burnout, and associated addictive behaviours.
Our dual diagnosis addiction and anxiety treatment plan includes a wide variety of psychological therapies including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to ease your feelings of anxiety and better understand your substance abuse.
We’re pleased to tell you that although daily life may seem unbearable at times, there is a way for you to overcome anxiety and addiction, and we’re here to help. Contact us today to begin your treatment plan by calling 01475 303998 or email us at info@novarecovery.com.
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What is Anxiety?
Each person who suffers from anxiety and addiction will experience different levels of severity. You could feel uneasy, worried, or fearful about something such as a job interview or sitting exams. When you begin to find it difficult to control your feelings of anxiety, it can severely impact your daily life causing you even more distress and worsen your drug or alcohol abuse.
The NHS describes anxiety as the main symptom of several conditions, including panic disorder, phobias such as agoraphobia or claustrophobia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or social anxiety disorder (social phobia).
The NHS go on to discuss a long-term mental health condition called generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) which “causes you to feel anxious about a wide range of situations and issues, rather than one specific event”. People who are living with a generalised anxiety disorder will feel anxious almost every day, as soon as one anxious thought is resolved, another appears, giving you no time to relax at all.
These symptoms of anxiety can include both psychological and physical symptoms including dizziness or heart palpitations, feeling restless or worried, and having trouble sleeping or concentrating. If you’re experiencing any of these symptoms of anxiety, it’s crucial that you seek help from professionals like ourselves at Nova Recovery before you make your anxiety or substance abuse worse.
Scotland Based Mental Health & Addiction Treatment Providers
Key offerings available include:
- Drug and Alcohol Rehab in Scotland
- 1:1 Support from Clinical Nurse Practitioners, Registered Mental Health Nurses and Therapists
- Access to Trained Psychiatrists
- 24-Hour Nursing Care
- Comfortable & Quality Accommodation
- Clinically Led Recovery Model Underpinned by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- 1 Year Aftercare
So what are you waiting for?
Begin your journeyHow Can We Help You?
We have a small rehab located in the beautiful west coast of Scotland, just a short stroll away from peaceful country walks and stunning beaches looking over to the Isle of Arran. We’re an experienced team of psychiatrists, specialist nurse practitioners, mental health nurse therapists, and support therapists who are on duty 24/7 to help you whenever you need it.
We offer 1-1 therapy and group therapy sessions where we encourage mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation through the use of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Our fantastic team also address and deliver stress management, anxiety management, regret, acceptance, forgiveness and relapse prevention planning. We help thousands of people every year to overcome their feelings of anxiety and addiction through dual diagnosis treatment, and we urge you to come forward and speak to our friendly team; do not suffer in silence.
We’re able to offer you a great dual diagnosis treatment plan which involves working with us to understand what may have caused your anxiety and addiction, which in turn will help you greatly to learn how to tackle your symptoms of anxiety and cravings and improve the quality of your daily life overall.
We aim to support you all the way through your recovery from anxiety and addiction by delivering effective coping strategies, identifying, and resolving any triggers linked to your feelings of anxiety, and by increasing your self-awareness. Our addiction and anxiety treatment techniques have proven to be very successful; we only hope that you will let us help you lead a happier, healthier life without the worries of anxiety and substance abuse.
How Does Anxiety Affect Us?
Looking back over the last decade, they explain that research has shown huge rises in anxiety and addiction across the UK due to factors such as the financial crash, austerity, Brexit, climate change, and social media. Unfortunately, cases of anxiety “has trebled among young adults, affecting 30% of women aged 18-24, and has increased across the board among men and women under 55”.
This study goes on to say that “Given the steep increases in anxiety revealed by this research, and the sheer number of people affected, it is now clear that Britain has a really serious and worsening problem with anxiety, which can have devastating effects on people’s lives. This data stopped just before the Covid-19 pandemic; we can speculate on how they would look now”. This statement is a harrowing reality of how many people in our communities are suffering from anxiety and panic attacks.
Proactive treatment centres like Nova Recovery help countless people each year with drug or alcohol addiction and anxiety treatment. Without professional help, it’s expected that your anxiety will only worsen over time, negatively impacting many aspects of your life including your relationships with loved ones, your physical and psychological health, your ability to function in your daily life, and your professional performance at school or at work.
We appreciate how overwhelming it can be to open up and admit that you need support for a mental health condition or addiction, but we urge you to be brave and reach out to us at Nova Recovery. We’re confident that our dual diagnosis treatment plan will help you to create a future free from the symptoms of anxiety.
Addiction and Anxiety Treatment Aftercare
Aftercare is extremely important when you’re recovering from an addiction or mental health condition; long-term recovery takes time and commitment. Our aftercare will provide support groups every week for 1 year following your discharge, in addition to a 24-hour support line.
We can continue to offer ongoing cognitive behavioural therapy if necessary. We also arrange zoom group meetings within the first 12 months of you completing your treatment plan with us. If you’re ready to begin your dual diagnosis anxiety treatment Scotland, please call us today on 01475 303998 or email us at info@novarecovery.com.
John Gillen
- Author
- Last updated: June 22, 2023
John has travelled extensively around the world, culminating in 19 years’ experience looking at different models. He is the European pioneer of NAD+ (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) treatment to Europe in 2010; and recently back from the USA bringing state of the art Virtual Reality Relapse Prevention and stress reduction therapy. His passion extends to other metabolic disturbances and neurodegenerative diseases. The journey continues. In recent times, John has travelled to Russia to study and research into a new therapy photobiomudulation or systemic laser therapy working with NAD+ scientists and the very best of the medical professionals in the UK and the USA, together with Nadcell, Bionad Hospitals own select Doctors, nurses, dieticians and therapists. Johns’ passion continues to endeavour to bring to the UK and Europe new developments with NAD+ Therapy in preventive and restorative medicine and Wellness. In 2017 John Gillen was made a visiting Professor at the John Naisbitt university in Belgrade Serbia.