When Mental Health Starts Affecting Daily Life (and What Actually Helps)
Mental health can begin affecting daily life when stress, trauma, anxiety, and depressed moods can interfere with your life, responsibilities, and relationships – how you live your life, care for yourself, and connect with others. It may show up as irritability, low focus, avoidance, or just the feeling that basic tasks require more effort than […]
Coping Not Working? Why Managing It Alone Gets Harder Over Time
Coping strategies are mechanisms we use to cope with our daily challenges – they can be both healthy and unhealthy. We all use some such tools every day. But when coping strategies stop working – because of ongoing stress or other challenges – the day-to-day becomes harder to manage on your own. If you have […]
When You Are Functioning, But It Is Getting Harder to Manage
You are showing up for your responsibilities and loved ones – every day. But internally, you feel it is becoming harder to manage. You find yourself stressed and anxious, and the day-to-day begins to feel more of a struggle than it needs to be. You are not breaking down or in a crisis yet, but […]
When Therapy Alone Is Not Enough: Signs You May Need More Support
Therapy is a good beginning point in taking care of your mental health. While very helpful, it does not work for everyone the same way, universally. Therapy can feel like it is not doing enough for you when what you are dealing with becomes harder to manage between one session and the next, or it […]
IOP vs. PHP: What’s the Difference?
Addiction treatment can be a very overwhelming process. One of the hardest aspects of the journey is choosing the right kind of treatment. There are many different treatment types and it can be difficult to choose the ‘right’ one. This is especially the case because everyone has preferences and individuals suffer from different types of […]