Making Progress
helps to keep track of your mental health, to recognize symptoms you will be experiencing.
What is a mood diary?
Key part of recovery
What is Hope?
Paul has been experiencing feelings of hopelessness, increased irritability, loss of pleasure, trouble concentrating or sleeping, or thoughts of death of suicide
What is Depression?
The term a health professional or doctor uses to describe no longer having mental health symptoms
What is Clinical Recovery?
creating this will keep you focused on your end goal, progress made and offer stability to your day to day life.
what is a routine?
to embrace your illness and the difficulties it brings. this helps to make positive changes and help to reach your goals
What is Acceptance?
Susan interprets reality abnormally and continues to experience hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling.
what is Schizophrenia?
The term used to describes you are able to live a meaningful life
What is personal recovery?
acquiring this will help you to meet new people and gain insight into things you are interested in.
what is learning a new skill?
what is taking control?
Joey a 12-year-old boy who was referred to mental health care. Joey’s parents noted that he “always seemed to have a new worry.” His most constant fear revolved around his parents’ safety.
Ongoing process, that has difficulties and challenges along the way. Often viewed as a journey
having a regular bedtime routine, only using your bed for sleep
what is sleep hygiene?
being secure with finances and environmental factors
what is stability?
Keith, a 45-year-old plumber, was referred for a psychiatric evaluation. For 20 years after high school, Keith drank 3-5 beers per evening, five times per week. Over the last 7 years, Keith drank almost daily, with an average of 6 beers on weeknights and 12 beers on weekends and holidays, His wife repeatedly voiced her concern that he was “drinking too much.”
What is addiction and substance use disorder?
Taking steps to get closer to where you would like to be. • Feeling part of the local community. • Achieving something that you found difficult to do. Such as getting out of the house. • Feeling able to look in the mirror and feel comfortable with who and what you see. • Liking yourself. • Thinking more positively
Are all ways to what?
What is view Recovery?
small moments of praise to yourself based on the progress you have made
what is rewarding yourself?
supports and people to talk to and connect with
What are relationships?
Jared was a 36-year old married veteran who had returned from Afghanistan, where he had served as an officer. He went to the Veterans Affairs outpatient mental health clinic complaining of having “a short fuse” and being “easily triggered.”
What is PTSD?
______ _______ can often help toward recovery