Most people who come about a dependency are not in crisis. They are people for whom something has become automatic — the glass, the app, the bet — and who would like the choice back. That is a reasonable thing to want and an early time to ask, which is exactly when this work is most effective.
Alcohol
More than one in four Australian adults drink above the national guidelines at least monthly. For most of them the issue is not the amount so much as that the decision stopped being a decision.
Gambling
Australians lose more per head than anyone in the world — $31.5 billion in a single year. Around one in twenty adults gambles at moderate or high risk, and another one in sixteen is harmed by somebody else doing it.
Someone else's gambling or drinking
A great many enquiries come from a partner rather than the person themselves. What can be worked on is your own footing in it — which is not nothing, and is often where change actually starts.
Phone and screens
The newest of these and the one people are most embarrassed to raise. Reaching for it before you have decided to, losing evenings, checking it in bed. The loop is the same as any other habit.
Substances
Overcome dependency at its source. Hypnotherapy helps calm the nervous system, reduce cravings, and build the inner resources needed for lasting recovery.