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Depression

Depression involves your body, mood, and thoughts.  It affects the way you eat and sleep, the way you feel about yourself, and the way you think about things.  A depressive disorder is not the same as a passing ‘blues’.  It is not a more…

Trauma support and counselling

A lot of people experience a traumatic event in their life by either witnessing or experiencing an event that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others.
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Emotional Wellness

Do you feel out of balance?
What does Emotional Wellness mean?
Emotional wellness is closely connected to the other dimensions of wellness. In the most basic sense, it refers to your ability to handle emotions in a constructive way in order to enable you to maintain a positive emotional state.
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Family matters

Families form the social circles in which we grow and from which we develop our beliefs, customs and attitudes. All of us come from families be they nuclear or extended these families serve to form our way of life, thought and believe systems.
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HIV and AIDS

The HIV and AIDS pandemic transcends colour barriers, social standing, and educational qualifications and has brought about suffering to both young and old. HIV and AIDS is life as we know it today, it has become our reality!
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Divorce

The “D” in divorce stands for DISASTER, DISTRESS, DANGER, DENIAL, DISEMPOWERMENT, DISRESPECT, DETACHMENT and DESTRUCTION in the dissolution of a marriage.
Most people end their marriage as the result of some disastrous event, life happening, or emotion that has caused the marriage to break down.
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Domestic Violence

1 in every 4 women in South Africa are assaulted by their boyfriend or husband every week. Gender based violence cuts across race, culture, religion and class.
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Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are abnormal eating habits that can threaten your health or even your life.
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Emotional Wellness

Do you feel out of balance?
What does Emotional Wellness mean?
Emotional wellness is closely connected to the other dimensions of wellness. In the most basic sense,
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Grief and Loss

The death of someone close to us is one of life’s most stressful and devastating events! We need to remember that mourning a loved one is an intolerably painful experience and it is normal to experience
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Mental Health

Mental health means striking a balance in all aspects of your life: social, physical, spiritual, economic and mental. Reaching a balance is a learning process
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Pregnancy

Are you pregnant and unsure about what to do?
Hard to make a decision!
LifeLine counsellors will emotionally support you, assist you to explore options, link you to agencies that deal with specific options such as adoption or abortion and help you to work through your thoughts and feelings connected to the choice that will be the right for them.
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Rape

It is estimated that a violent attack of rape happens every five minutes and that in fact 1 in 3 women in South Africa will be raped.
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Relationships

As human beings we have an inherent need to form intimate relationships of love, friendship and support. However, in life these relationships can often fail to meet our individual needs and
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Retirement / retrenchment / unemployment

When you lose your job, not only is your usual source of income gone, but also your personal work relationships, daily structures, and an important sense of self-purpose.
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Self Injuring Behaviour

Often we do not know what self-harm is all about and do not understand it and because out of our insecurity we react to a person who self-harms in a way which is not helpful. Therefore this page should give a short overview what self-mutilation is that we won’t judge them anymore.
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Sexuality

Generally speaking, human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. The study of human sexuality encompasses an array of social activities and an abundance of behaviours, series of actions, and societal topics.
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Substance Abuse

Addiction is a complex disorder characterized by compulsive drug use. People who are addicted feel an overwhelming, uncontrollable need for drugs or alcohol, even in the face of negative consequences.
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Suicide

Suicide. We would rather not talk about it. We hope it will never happen to anyone we know. But suicide is a reality, and it is more common than you might think.
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Violence / Violent Crime

With the very high levels of crime and violence that exist in South Africa, few South African’s lives have not been touched by crime and violence.Most South Africans have either been victims of crime and/or violence themselves or know others who have been victims.
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