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09/12/2025

When Life Becomes Chaotic:

M**h-induced psychosis is a severe psychiatric disorder marked by persistent and powerful disruptions in thinking and perception. It manifests in the form of psychotic episodes that can last for a few hours, a few days, or an indefinite period.

Unless you have witnessed this, it is impossible to understand just how much impact this condition has. Long-term m**h-induced psychosis may become the diagnosis.

The tell-tale symptoms of m**h-induced psychosis include:

• Delusions. These delusions will seem entirely real from the perspective of the person experiencing psychosis.
• Hallucinations. Individuals experiencing m**h-induced psychosis may experience powerful hallucinations, primarily visual or tactile.
• Agitation. It may be impossible for a person to relax or sit still, experiencing extreme, unrelenting anxiety.
• Paranoia. M**h-induced psychosis produces profound suspicion of other people, which in some cases can lead to hostile or violent behaviour.

08/12/2025

Dopamine is a crucial neurotransmitter and hormone in the brain, acting as a chemical messenger that influences pleasure, motivation, mood, focus, and movement, forming the core of the brain's reward system; it makes us feel good.

Dopamine levels can be negatively impacted by drug use.

Dopamine levels can be raised through evidence-based supplements, including:

• Curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, increases dopamine in the brain.

• Ginkgo Biloba has a potential to raise dopamine levels as well.

• Acetyl-l-tyrosine is a building block of dopamine, so a healthy dose of it supports the production of dopamine in the brain.

• L-theanine increases numerous neurotransmitters in the brain, including dopamine.
Green tea is a rich source of l-theanine

• Dark chocolate contains phenylalanine, an amino acid that plays a key role in dopamine production. Look for dark chocolate with more than 80 percent cacao as it has the highest concentration of dopamine-building phenylalanine.

23/11/2025

With a family member in addiction, our DNA screams at us to do things that actually enable them. This is a simple checklist. Hard to do, but the right things to do.

21/11/2025

Overcoming addiction may be one of the toughest battles we will endure. We need to dig deep inside ourselves. And we need to be ready to commit to change. Having someone to walk beside us on the path to recovery will help.

18/11/2025

Your world has been ripped apart.
What has happened to your loved one?
The lies, the stealing, the anger, the despair.
What the hell has happened to this person?

Don’t lose hope. Their time will come.
That moment when they are ready for change.

Along with relevant degrees and qualifications,
the Red Door team also brings lived experience
to the mix. It may be the most valuable
qualification of all.

When that time comes for your loved one, we
will be here to walk with them.

And bring them home.

(We can also help you to help your loved one.)

For info, please email admin@reddoorrecovery.co.nz

Or call 0800 RED DOOR. (0800 7 333 66)

17/11/2025

Red Door Recovery was created from aroha and empathy by David and Tanja Collinge.

Receiving emails like this below, warms our heart as we continue to keep the dream alive for many years to come.

A Mothers testimony:

Kia ora Blain,

I wanted to extend my heartfelt thanks to the entire Red Door team, and especially to you, for the incredible support you provided to Matthew last week.

I deeply appreciate not just the time you gave, but also the substantial mahi that happened behind the scenes.

Your commitment extends well beyond the 5 pm clock-off. The work you do requires immense generosity, resilience, and care.

Thank you for giving so much of yourselves.
As we head into the holiday break, I hope each of you finds time to rest and reconnect with your whānau. I’m looking forward to catching up with you all on the 19th.

Ngā mihi nui,

Jane

09/11/2025

We don't just ask the person what addiction they have; we need to ask the addiction what person it has.

31/10/2025

Three years on. Never forgotten.

20/10/2025

Trapped in addiction is like being in a dark space, pitch black, and you cant find a way out. But when it is time, you will find a door.

19/10/2025

Red Door programmes come with a two year aftercare support plan. Along with the relevant qualifications, our team also brings lived experience into the mix, to help you turn the tide. For info: admin@reddoorrecovery.co.nz or 0800 RED DOOR (733 366).

17/10/2025

There is a lot more to a recovery hikoi than walking up a hill.

It’s about the push, doing som**hing we don’t want to, connection, fresh air and nature, and most importantly moving through a week’s worth of intensive work through our bodies.

Mauri ora.

24/09/2025

We say Good Bye to drugs and alcohol through a burning ceremony, the letter gets read out to their peers and then burnt. This is a Good Bye letter from one of our tangata whaiora.

Dear M**h,

Is it normal to choose you over my children?

Is it normal to walk the tight rope every day hoping that the next shot is going to be the one that kills me. And i get a sense of peace thinking this.

Is it normal to do things to other people that is so destructive and horrible and your able to justify it with complete and utter bu****it.

Is it normal to treat your loved ones like s**t through physical , verbal and emotion abuse and manipulation?

Is it normal to see prison as a way to get healthy and clean so you can get back out there and do it all again?

Is it normal to run on zero emotion and empathy , to discard your morals and values in order to feed your addiction?

Is it normal dishonesty becomes your first language?

Is it normal to isolate from all your loved ones and people that truly care?

It is normal to totally disregard all laws , rules , boundaries and consider this a normal way of life?

Is it normal to lay blame on everyone but yourself and take no ownership for any of your own actions?

F**k no , it’s not and f**k you m**h and my addiction.
I’ve wasted 10 years of my life supporting your hunger and all you have returned is misery , loss of self , attempted su***de , loneliness , incarceration , hate , pain , anger , emotional distress and loss of everything i believe in.
I chose to use you , and now i choose to free myself from the noose i have hung in for so long.
I have a solution to all the problems you have caused me . That solution comes down to putting my recovery first and reaching out when i am struggling , no matter what. Why? Because i dont want to die.
No doubt , you’ll try to climb the ladder , you’ll pop your head up through the good and the bad , but i will never let you reclaim the top spot ever again and sink me into that dark hole you create.
Our relationship wasn’t all bad , i can’t deny that , you made me feel none of those horrible feelings that once seemed unbearable to feel. But now upon completion of Red Door Recovery i have the tools , the support and the aftercare to know i am never alone. I can feel these feelings now , and sit with them. I can’t change whats happened but i can change tomorrow.
Whatever i had externally , i was internally broken from the first day we met.
This is farewell mother f**ker , i forgive you because i have to forgive myself but i will never ever forget the pain you caused and the internal misery.

Today i choose to be clean and to seperate from you for good.

Peace.

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