Author: Jaco de Beer

Cannabis Interferes With Development Cannabis use during adolescence and early adulthood is often framed as a phase. It is seen as experimentation, rebellion, or a […]

Why Alcohol Turns Suppressed Emotion Into Violence and Volatility Alcohol does not create anger in a person who has none. It strips away the internal […]

Why Moving Forward Feels More Terrifying Than Falling Apart One of the most misunderstood forces driving addiction is not the fear of failure, but the […]

The Hidden Struggles Behind Masculinity When people talk about addiction, the conversation often centres on behaviour, drinking, using, hiding, denying. But behind these actions lies […]

The Uncomfortable Truth Parents Don’t Want to Admit Parents often believe they know their children better than anyone else and, in many ways, they do. […]

Addiction is often described as numbness, a dulling of life, a fog that mutes everything. But there’s another side to it that’s less talked about, […]

Addiction doesn’t always look like chaos. Sometimes it looks like composure. It looks like clean clothes, steady smiles, and well-rehearsed laughter. It looks like someone […]

Some people walk through life with their nerves exposed. They don’t just hear people’s pain, they feel it. The sigh in someone’s voice, the look […]

You can quit the bottle. You can throw away the pills. You can survive withdrawals, therapy, and the long, uneven climb back into yourself. But […]

We live in a world that rewards anxiety. The anxious student is called “driven.” The anxious employee is “a perfectionist.” The anxious parent is “always […]