I’ll be eternally grateful to you. I was lost, but now I’ve awoken to a new life. Using your tools and with hard work, I’ll enjoy it. Thank you.
This change in terminology may seem insignificant, but it’s amazing how the brain receives and processes this change in linguistic information. This way, we don’t fill it with more negative concepts.
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I wanted to talk about the stigma of suffering from an addiction or a mental illness. On its own, this concept has certain negative connotations, and in addition to associating or labelling a person with a diagnosis, it involves value judgments from those around you, whether in your professional, personal or family environment or just in general. People forget about the person behind of all that, and the circumstances that led them to their current situation.
The same sort of stigmatization promotes rejection and/or isolation in our environment and in ourselves, and exogenous stigma is just as damaging as endogenous stigma, since the latter eats away at our being and our essence as a person. Sometimes, it contributes to the failure to accept those with disorders, which are hidden under layers and layers of sadness, guilt, shame, anger, despair, etc.
I wonder how we reach this extreme, and why. Some lifesavers must have appeared along the way, and maybe we rejected them to keep from being discovered and because of “what they’ll say”.
Isn’t it worth it to fight to recover our essence as individuals? My response: of course it is!
And Galatea is the perfect place to begin personal reconstruction.
Thank you to the Galatea team.
In the world of healthcare, people still make plenty of extremely unhealthy value judgments. Recognizing that you have a problem probably won’t be well received by the team you work with; it’s incongruent, but it’s true. For me, remaining anonymous and having the guarantee of confidentiality were essential. I hope these extremely necessary programs become well-known in the world of healthcare; as the saying goes, the shoemaker’s children often go barefoot.
Located in Barcelona, it is the center of detoxification and treatment of additions and mental disorders specialized in doctors and health professionals.