Some of the major causes of developmental and behaviour disorders such as obsessive –compulsive gambling are:

1. Diet – the wrong kind of food such as a refined carbohydrate, tea, coffee, or other stimulant, excessive amounts of additives in foods, junk food like fizzy drinks, chocolate, sweets, any form of sugar, other stimulant like hard cheeses, fats causes the body to produce the adrenal hormone Cortisol. It also requires the body to use vital nutrients in order to break down and eliminate the toxic residue leaving the person mal nourished. All of this will have an impact on the mind in some way, varying from depression to behavioural problems.
2. Drugs/alcohol – Recreational & prescribed drugs can have an impact on a person’s development and behaviour especially if these have been consumed before, or during gestation. Vaccinations are also a major consideration when dealing with developmental and behavioural problems.
3. Shocks - are a major cause of mental illness, especially physical or emotional shock of grief or fear. Prolonged mental/emotional and physical abuse, especially sexual abuse) can be the precursor to behavioural disorders.
4. Behavioural Problems of Children due to Parenting Problems - Poor relationships may slow the child’s development of mental and social skills and cause failure to thrive. A vicious circle pattern is a cycle of negative (naughty) behaviour by the child that causes a negative (angry) response from the parent or caregiver, followed by more negative behaviour by the child, leading to a further negative response from the parent.

So are there alternatives?

There are a variety of complementary and alternative approaches that can help – this article addresses whether homeopathy can make a difference.

Homoeopathy addresses the person as a whole, as a totality (including all aspects of their life); and affects the mind, body, emotions and spirit. From this we can infer that homoeopathy has an important role to play in dealing with psychological “dis-ease” as well as today’s behavioural and psychosocial problems (of which there has been a huge increase in the West).

From a homeopathic perspective it is difficult to separate the psychological from the physical aspect of the person. The homeopath needs to understand underlying causes of developmental and behaviour disorders and put symptoms in the right context to make maximum use of the individuals own self healing mechanisms.

The homeopathic point of view is that 80% of dis-eases come from the mind. The other 20% comes from the food we eat, environmental toxicity, physical injuries, drug toxicity and hereditary factors. When dealing with behavioural problems we must establish the context of the symptoms.

Homeopaths have always treated the mental emotional symptoms of the client as part of the whole body approach, strengthening it to support the mind and visa versa. Homeopaths understand that to be healthy, we need to not only take care of physical health by proper diet and life style, but also take responsibility for mental and emotional well being as well.

Homeopathy has a concept called ‘Miasms’ that can help explain this type of obsessive –compulsive behaviour and an individual’s predisposition for such behaviour.

The main miasm to govern the mind tends to be the syphilitic miasm. The energy is destructive and there is a pre disposition to mental illness, insanity depression, eating disorders, phobias; drug and alcohol abuse. There are four main Miasmatic remedy to consider when looking at psychological disorders but it is very important to establish the root causes of behaviour disorders.

Unfortunately allopathic medicine has, in general, reduced developmental and behaviour disorders to biochemical imbalances and assumes that an appropriate chemical therapy will fix the problem. In fact, there are many underlying causes that need to be taken into consideration when treating people with gambling and other behavioural disorders.

The concept of an ‘addictive personality’ has been added to our vocabulary where people are predisposed to taking habit forming substances or behaving in ways that are obsessive - compulsive. The rewards for the behaviour can be physical, mental or emotional. With this sort of personality one healing approach is to swap a bad habit for another hopefully less damaging one, e.g. changing an alcoholic into a compulsive exerciser. However the real challenge is to remove the emotional need that produces the compulsive behaviour!

Louise Hay says that addictions are about running from the self, fear and not knowing how to love the self.

A well trained practical homeopath will investigate the underlying causes of the problem and using the time line will help a client explore this – it may establish what emotional, physical abuses or substances the client has been exposed to and prescribe remedies that will support the body to heal itself.

In the West, behavioural disorders are extremely common and it is an important part of case management to take into consideration the cause of the symptoms – whether mental/emotional or physical. A homeopathic case taking should be a thorough investigation into the cause of the problem in order to remove the symptoms. You will never get a cure to any thing if you do not address the cause of the problem and this true not only for homeopathy but all other systems of medicine. These disorders require help and support from a range of complementary and alternative treatments. Counselling and psychotherapy can be of great benefit in helping people resolve psychological issues and will act as an important adjunct to homeopathic treatment or vice versa.

Homeopathy, especially if applied in a practical way, can provide treatment strategies that are tailored to the individual needs of the person and which are non toxic, non addictive and cost effective system. This can relieve the untold misery of obsessive compulsive behaviour and prevent individual spiralling downwards in to a world of chemical coshes, ill health and fear based medical interventions.

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It is now generally recognised that people who have psychological disorders are suffering from physical imbalances of the brain; as well as disturbances in thinking, emotion, and behaviour. These disorders are often caused by the complex interactions between physical, psychological, social, cultural, and hereditary influences. An ‘addiction’ to gambling could be seen as one of these disorders and therefore would fall under the remit of the NHS as it stands today. The current treatment of mental health disorders are categorized as either:

• drug therapy and electroconvulsive therapy
• psychotherapeutic treatments include individual, group, or family and marital psychotherapy; behaviour therapy techniques (such as relaxation training or exposure therapy); and hypnotherapy

If you are lucky, live in the right area and are persistent you may get a combined treatment approach involving drugs, psychotherapy and counselling but the resources are extremely limited particularly in the more costly approaches which involve trained counsellors rather than cheap medical coshes or happy pills.

Bear in mind that responses to the side effects of allopathic drugs are also unpredictable and affect a person mentally and emotionally. Many patients who are treated with drugs experience chronic illness including depression which further aggravates their condition and may lead to further pathological behaviour.

Children acquire many skills as they grow. Some skills, such as controlling urine and stool, depend mainly on the level of maturity of the child’s nerves and brain. Others, such as behaving appropriately at home and in school, are the result of a complicated interaction between the child’s cognitive development, health, temperament, and relationship with parents, teachers, and caregivers.

Behavioural and developmental problems can interfere with and threaten normal relationships between the child and others. Gambling can be a mild behavioural problem – a time of experimentation and rebellion that is grown out of as we mature into adulthood. For an increasing number however this growth process is arrested and they continue to create problems. So what are the alternative or complementary approaches that could be used – either within the NHS – or privately?

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The UK govenment continues to pour untold billions into a failed NHS system – Robinsons recipe is to bring in a breed of super managers who can hold there own with the consultants and the Unions – lets manage our way out of it – at more expense of course!

Another interesting remedy suggested in Peter Day’s In Business programme on Radio 4, looked at the application of Toyota’s production principles to healthcare (Toyota hasn’t made a loss, or closed a factory, for 40 years). He sees the beauty of the Toyota system is that it concentrates rigorously on doing only what the customer wants, when they want it - rather than seeking efficiency by speeding up individual activities, it focuses on improving the flow through the entire system by keeping those activities to the absolute minimum.

e.g In A&E, , most of the workload is minor complaints or, increasingly, referrals from NHS Direct that aren’t really emergencies at all. Often even serious incidents are predictable, like drink-fuelled injuries on Saturday night. A system designed to handle predictable demand dispenses with the need for complicated scheduling and automatically increases capacity to cope with truly urgent cases.
However both models miss the essential point which is an understanding of the difference between sickness and health – in a society that encourages over consumption, under exercise, and is busy polluting its children with every toxin we can think up the National Sickness System will never be able to provide other than elastoplast to the problems – and in the process add to them (40% of hospital admissions are thought to be iatrogenic – ie caused by drugs provided by GPs or as a result of previous medical treatment). The customer in this case want to have his cake, coke, alcohol whatever and be given a magic pill to make it all better – the drug companies fuel this fantasy with constant stories about the super vaccine etc and the profits just keep getting bigger.
People are increasingly turning to alternative and complementary approaches such as homeopathy and naturopathy to heal themselves and to promote healthier life styles. If you are a disillusioned soon to be redundant health professional but have managed to keep a passion for helping people see the following blogs to see if there is an alternative for you.

Find out from others about what training to become a homeopath has done for them.

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The NHS is in serious trouble - Sir Gerry Robinson’s televised attempt to sort out Rotherham General Hospital highlighted the endemic problems with the National Sickness Service - where the incentive is too keep pouring the taxpayers money into a system that creates more sickness that it solves - ideal for the drug companies whose enormous profits rely on being able to hold governments to ransom and for highly paid overpowered consultants who have always been the bane of the NHS from Day 1 - add the third factor of well meaning, poorly paid and overworked basic nursing and support staff is it any wonder that health is the last thing to come out of the NHS!

Is there an alternative ? - yes there is and that is why increasingly thinking people are turning to alternative and complementary approaches such as homeopathy and naturopathy to heal themselves and to promote healthier life styles. If you are a disillusioned soon to be redundant health professional but have managed to keep a passion for helping people see the following to see if there is a more satisfying alternative lifestyle for you.

If you:

• have an interest in health issues (your own and others)
• are concerned about current medical approaches to health
• already qualified as a nurse, Doctor, pharmacist, or alternative practitioner and interested in seeking further training in the complementary health sector
• thinking of changing career
• redundant - looking for retraining
• are fed up with your job
• are returning to work after bringing up children/illness etc
• think you have what it takes be self employed

Then training to become a homeopath or Naturopath could be a good option for you.

Find out what some our recent graduates have to say about what training to become a homeopath has done for them.

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