The Most Expensive Rehab in the World | High Society

you pop your eyes in you reset your nervous system would it be correct in saying that this is the most expensive rehab in the world i would say that's probably the truth you're coming here as an addict extremely vulnerable helps with the circulation this creates more energy it's the diagnostic and the treatment bioresonance tests which have no scientific backing i just don't know how you could do it how are you feeling i actually felt that the money was killing me it was very lonely if you carry on you will develop a habit do you know what you're feeling now [Music] paracelsus is the world's most expensive rehab and it costs i think 300 grand no not 300 grand god how much was it 200 a month it costs 300 a month there is a luxury apartment 24-hour living therapist psychiatric assessment addiction assessment brain analysis all these people around this table will be discussing me i don't know if they're going to find that i'm basically broken human being growing up in central london a lot of people work in the media it's become quite normalized the drinking and the casual drug taking paracelsus is completely different to what i've seen previously i've tried cognitive behavioral therapy i did a.a for a while where it's all about group therapy this is like a one-on-one therapy session i'm very keen together sydney so nice to meet you nice to meet you welcome thank you thanks so much for having me now that i'm on my way to spend a free weekend at the world's most expensive rehab i can find out whether money really can solve or problems oh this is great i love it i love it do you play piano no i can't it's the therapy room how are you okay yeah i'm good how are you doing a bit crazy when you arrived yeah it is yeah a bit bit kind of nerve-wracking oh it's beautiful how do you feel now i feel fine it's obviously a strange setup yeah all right bye he lives in this a penthouse apartment and he doesn't leave how you feeling now they're hungry let's see if magta prepared a nice juice please thank you so much it was really weird walking into a room and having a team of people waiting on me i kind of just wanted to run and hide we do in a way create a kind of symbolic family so america's like mummy and i can be a bit like daddy maggie can cook eating of a stranger is awkward enough without them also being paid to analyze you i've got a charity for saving drowning fish huh after some strange small talk i was straight into my first therapy session start from the beginning my parents separated when i was about seven years old i lived with my mum and then i just remember being very worried at school i started drinking when i was 13. so you began drinking alcohol at 13. yeah i was terrified of drugs for ages and then i just went a bit madder so then i wasn't scared of pills suddenly and then i was like taking it like and i wasn't really scared of many drugs from like 17 to 21 that i was just constantly pissed or like i wanna come i just was delusional what i'm just wondering about your relationship with your dad that's all i've come to terms with being accepting but obviously i haven't have i you tell me so you were using coke up until last year i'll still do a bit of coke now yeah does it help you no it makes you feel why'd you do it then because if i'm pissed i'll do a little line do you want to stop yeah i find it really hard because it's so normalized amongst everyone i just think you've got to maybe try to stay away from things that currently don't really help you next on my program is a session of something called biochemical restoration which uses bioresonance technology this would be to test my intolerances in order to temporarily change my diet wow so this is really not so good this is the buckwheat you're allergic i was holding a rod my finger was tapped into something i was very bemused with what was going on at the time you are allergic against the herring you are lurching against salmon i just had some dark purpose similarly with the metatron they were scanning my body and then they were finding the bits that weren't right within my body and then downloading some sort of treatment to my body via a computer if you i see your lymph node has not enough energy i can give him energy it's the diagnostic and the treatment so you just click a button computer is creating there is more so more there is something behind you behind you i had never experienced or heard of anything like these tests and this is 100 gold and it helps to create the energies oh wow i mean i've just been given a solid gold sticker to heal my previously unknown herring and duck feather allergies i love herring when does it start kind of working oh it's sad immediately i think so far the main things that set paracelsus apart from other elite rehabs are the strange body assessments and the 24 7 living therapist louis i wanted to find out more about where these novel approaches came from so i met with the company's founder what do you get for that price tag that other places can't provide many things so what's the thinking behind the living therapist it's basically something we invented if you have one client at the time the person cannot stay alone how do your clients receive that initially can be annoying but i think all of them very quickly come to really appreciate the role and the person of the living therapist stuff at bioresonance how does it work to be honest i was quite skeptical initially when we started working with it because to understand the mechanisms is immensely complex and it's not something that you can tie directly back to you know what's taught in medical school uh today we never rely fully on it we always double check with the labs but by resonance we can really start immediately with the right treatment applications i'm just going to google a few things around buy a resonance test smart dessert oh thank you so much so enjoy thank you thank you bioresonance electrodermal testing there's little or no scientific rationale for these methods i just feel like when you're in a desperate position as an addict coming here you will take these bioresonance tests and not question them well maybe you should hello oh my god oh great please that's your room this is my room if at any time during the night you need to talk just come and get me it's 6 30 a.m and i'm being taken to the dolde ground which is the off-site spa for the paracelsus [Music] it's probably the most luxury spa i've ever been to it would definitely work for the 300 grand a month for us i mean you've got everything here definitely keeps up a certain standard of living which i'm sure everyone's used to i'm not exposed to hot stone baths i'm not trying to relax okay i don't know if i can laugh hell i can't do it [Music] but okay can i come out oh now we've got frostbite [Music] this does feel like the antidote to unhealthy sex living but also what you might use to refresh and get right back on it the next day [Music] i'm hoping louie's not gonna take me aside at breakfast um it's getting quite intense having him any five minutes spare you have in between testing um louise there wanting to have a chat about how you feel and quite frankly now i just don't feel like for chatting louie how are you i feel fine so how are you really what do you want me to say for how i am i mean i'm fine like there's not much more i can um just in time for the next meal a dietitian arrives to tell magda the 1000 things i now supposedly can't eat fish i know is struck off quite a lot but there were still a few things left here which would be ideal for you i don't know if you've begun shellfish not really in addition so food wise lots of fruits were taken off a lot of nuts were taken away but ultimately variety is key how does the way you manage your diet help overcoming substance abuse problems it wouldn't help you overcome a substance abuse but it would help with the person's mood thank you so much even though magda's food is pretty good my mood is just not improving no using the plan poem no using the phones i felt more intense today yeah i did nearly tell lou to off i love louie but i just don't know how you could do it every day [Music] i just feel a bit claustrophobic and completely surrounded by people i don't really know you know you can't go out for walks i don't like it hello this is intermittent hypoxic therapy we do cycles of low oxygen this creates more energy it's just a lot of really good effects would it have any effect on like craving some people do experience less of an appetite but what about craving to alcohol cravings for alcohol i have not heard that i'm beginning to feel skeptical about how any of these treatments and lifestyle changes are really going to help overcome any real issues does it help addicts i wouldn't do cupping for addiction treatments then i would do acupuncture it was like shooting in my back i didn't know if i was being a massive cynic or whether all of this was actually a bit daft you pop your eyes in yes oh yes now what you reset your nervous system resetting your nervous system i've never heard that one before my eye but maybe when you're paying this absurd price you need a parade of novelties to either keep you occupied or feel as though you're getting your money's worth excuse me i'm fine remember it's fine okay in order to show me just how effective their treatment actually is paracelsus have organised for me to meet a former client [Music] paracelsus it was for me the most important decision i have made in my life what were your issues no i had many alcohol and cocaine most of the people i know who have those type of issues they don't want to be in any group sessions stay concerned about reputation no one in my life on my circle even noticed that i was in treatment how much were you spending on your drug habit and drink habit there was no problem to spend 50 000 in the night or more people who live this type of lifestyle they also spend a lot of money on inviting other people i was really able to party for three days and go to work like nothing happened can you describe what your life was like when you're at your lowest point during addiction the last time i tried today from khan to sardinia you know i remember that at some point i was throwing up overboards and people they were lying there they were all like messed up and i didn't even remember where they came from it was very lonely my life was going too fast to nowhere i looked at the mediterranean sea and there was a beautiful sunrise and i felt like you got to change something and is that when you came to paracelsus yeah after that yes so i stayed i think for two months and then i came back and used paracelsus as my support system and and how much did you spend in total it was like 800 000 million yeah can you give us a rough idea of how wealthy you are well i don't know but i would say it will be enough to stay for the rest of my life at paris it's easy to see how paracelsus could become a temporary escape for people whose lives of debauchery have no budgetary limits people of that power money can keep them going for a long time so the rock bottom is when they end up in the emergency room or sometimes in a morgue [Music] it's hard for the average population to really have empathy for somebody who has it all who can afford everything to actually be allowed to suffer and have problems at some point that kind of lifestyle becomes a bit dull boredom is a big factor when when you have a lot of wealth and and really no purpose you need a reason to get out of bed in the morning and that's not just to go to the next party that purpose doesn't last very long that really isolates and and in the end it's that loneliness and the pain that comes from that loneliness and often also associated boredom that leads to this pain and in the void it and people start to self-medicating you know you were seven years old and you probably were fully aware of the tension between your mum and dad and then the anxiety kicks in just letting it all go and drugs and crazy and that just made it worse it never went away do you know do you know what you're feeling now it's quite intense isn't it it's been a really i think i think we're talking about your dad i think it's what's going on if you carry on with that acceptance of it's london and it's part of the scene i'm just gonna do it that process of of engaging may increase and then you will develop a habit you know the idea of abstinence is when you're trying to rewrite in your pathways is the way to go you're giving yourself every opportunity to create new experience and it's a new experience which challenges the neuroplasticity which then creates the change in the brain the sheer quantity of treatments on offer at paracelsus can often feel like a way to justify the price tag but the main focus is therapy and if it eventually forced me to engage with my issues it can do the same for the one percent as much as we love to pile in on rich people i guess wealth can sometimes be a gilded cage that leads to isolation but for those of us who can't hire a team of people to make us feel better whenever we want a church hall and a few chairs are just as good and there's probably a reason it's unusual for therapists to sit with you for all your meals and refer to themselves as your symbolic dad i'm excited to get back i'm excited to have a glass of wine i probably shouldn't say that [Laughter] [Music] so [Applause]

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Length: 18min 2sec (1082 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 08 2020

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So it is a horse shit scam preying on rich addicts. Got it.