Nicole J. Peak
Have you ever had a mental health crisis that has totally rocked your world? For many people, when they’re experiencing mental health challenges, it can become difficult to maintain their normal responsibilities, such as going to work, doing schoolwork, or taking care of your home. One way to start influencing your emotions, is to focus … <a href="https://sillonwellness.com/blog/mental-health-regaining-control-actions/">Continued</a>
Insurance Accepted At Sillon Wellness Services, we accept Tricare and Aetna insurances for counseling. Most insurance companies, however, are willing to pay for counseling and other mental health services. In fact, most plans automatically come with coverage built in for such services. Once you have decided to seek therapy for the challenges you are facing, … <a href="https://sillonwellness.com/blog/aetna-and-tricare-therapists/">Continued</a>
Have you ever learned that someone close to you has a mental health disorder and not known what to say? It can seem difficult to talk about mental health disorders, especially if you don’t really understand what they’re experiencing. However, you can help your family and friends who are struggling with their mental health by … <a href="https://sillonwellness.com/blog/communicating-mental-illness/">Continued</a>
Getting started can be the hardest part, right? Mental health has this weird stigma clouding it, but it is one of the most important factors we can focus on in our lives. Mental health can be compared to physical health; when you aren’t feeling like yourself inside your body, you go to the doctor. When … <a href="https://sillonwellness.com/blog/starting-mental-health-journey/">Continued</a>
Seeing your family members or loved ones struggle can be painful and difficult. However, when they’re struggling with something that you don’t understand or haven’t experienced personally, like mental illness, it can feel impossible to help them. Here are a few suggestions that will teach you how to help a family member who is struggling … <a href="https://sillonwellness.com/blog/help-family-member-mental-illness/">Continued</a>
You know those people that have more than you? The people who take vacations, buy new clothes, or have influence? Life seems to come easily to them… Do you feel a subtle wave of envy and discontentment wash over you when you talk to them, see them, or look at their Instagram feed? Often, when … <a href="https://sillonwellness.com/blog/the-comparison-trap/">Continued</a>
It’s the little habits that can make the biggest difference in our lives—the difference between energy and lethargy, alertness and fogginess, determination and hopelessness. Those are big things that are completely achievable, if you give your mind and body the right tools! Here are a few key habits that are core factors in your body … <a href="https://sillonwellness.com/blog/simple-habits-big-change/">Continued</a>
Mental disorders are usually the result of chemicals and hormones in the brain becoming unbalanced. When this is the case, mindfulness and self-care are only a small part of what needs to be a large treatment. Sometimes, the most effective option involves medication that can chemically correct the imbalance causing so many issues. When to … <a href="https://sillonwellness.com/blog/considering-medication-treatment/">Continued</a>
So many people live day to day in a frustrating struggle, unaware that those struggles have names (like depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety, PTSD, etc.)… and that knowing those names can provide them with a sense of control over those struggles, rather than the feeling of being controlled by them! Taking even generic, online tests … <a href="https://sillonwellness.com/blog/psych-personality-testing/">Continued</a>