Islamic Medical Centre provides assessment and treatment for mental health conditions including depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar affective disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia — both as conditions in their own right and where they occur alongside addiction.
Conditions assessed and treated
Mental health conditions are treated on their own merits, not only as complications of substance use. Many patients arrive because of a mental health difficulty with no addiction involved at all.
- Depression and persistent low mood
- Anxiety disorders and phobias
- Bipolar affective disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Schizophrenia and psychotic illness
- Postnatal depression and mental illness after childbirth
- Bereavement, grief and adjustment difficulties
- Self-harm and suicidal thinking
- Persistent sleep problems
When addiction and mental illness occur together
Substance use and mental illness frequently coexist, and separating cause from effect is often impossible and usually unnecessary. What matters clinically is that treating one while ignoring the other tends to fail, because the untreated condition continues to drive the treated one.
Where both are present, treatment addresses them together rather than sequentially — psychiatric care and addiction treatment running in the same programme rather than in separate places at separate times.
Seeking help early
Mental health difficulties are still widely stigmatised, and the practical consequence is that people present late, when a condition that would have responded readily has become entrenched. Early assessment is materially easier to treat than late assessment.
Admission is available 24 hours a day. Families are welcome to call before deciding, and an initial conversation carries no obligation.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Do you treat mental health conditions without addiction?
- Yes. Depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD and psychotic illness are assessed and treated as conditions in their own right, whether or not any substance use is involved.
- What if someone has both addiction and a mental illness?
- They are treated together rather than one after the other. Treating only one generally fails, because the untreated condition continues to drive the treated one.
- Is a referral needed?
- No. Families and individuals can contact the centre directly, and an initial conversation carries no obligation.