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How to Support a Loved One Through Treatment
One of the questions that people frequently ask us is how they can best support their loved one who is participating in our program. Many people don’t know how to support their loved ones during their journey to recovery aside from having them participate in our...
Easy Ways to Practice Good Mental Hygiene
The importance of practicing good mental hygiene is now being understood better than ever. In the past, people used to believe that mental illness wasn’t real, or that people who claimed to be suffering from mental illnesses were either doing it for attention or...
Ways Mental Stability Can Affect Your Happiness
Each mental illness that can cause someone to be mentally unstable has its own distinct and specific symptoms. However, some signs of mental stability can link
Finding Time To Meditate To Maintain A Healthy Life
People say the hardest thing about meditation is finding time to meditate. And when you think about it, it’s often true. Who really has the time for anything these days— between work, kids, and the multitude of responsibilities we face everyday? With those things,...
How Mental Stability Affects Happiness
People spend their entire lives pursuing happiness but rarely is it discussed how mental stability affects happiness and how big of a role it actively plays.
The Importance of Gratitude in Addiction Recovery
The Mindset of AddictionIt’s common for those who struggle with addiction to get stuck within the mindset of “me against the world”. It can feel like no one is on your side, often times not even yourself. This selfish line of thinking can cause any sort of recovery to...
How to Help Your Partner During an Anxiety Attack
Having a panic attack is a really rough experience, and everyone experiences them differently. If your partner has anxiety but you don’t, it can be difficult for you to know how to help them when they are in the middle of an anxiety attack. It’s not an experience that...
How to Recognize Signs of Depression
The word “depression” or “depressed” has lost a lot of its weight in mainstream media over the last few years. Instead of being a word used to describe mental illness, it’s been substituted as a synonym for sadness. This casual narrative has made it more and more...
A Quick Background on PTSD
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is a disorder that takes root when a person experiences a traumatic event. It is one of the disorders that is commonly seen co-occurring with addiction, and over half of men who have PTSD also suffer from an addiction. PTSD has...
Advantages of a Residential Mental Health Center over a Hospital
For individuals who suffer from mental health problems, including bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, and PTSD, among other things, there are a variety of treatment options that can be utilized to make substantial progress. In the past, one major avenue of...