EARLY WARNING SIGNS
These are slight changes in feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that indicate an increase in illness symptoms.
What are early warning signs?
This is the term for the people in your life that can help you prevent relapse and provide assistance in the case that you do relapse.
What is a support network? What is a support system?
You need to be able to do this in order to effectively maintain your progress and avoid relapse.
What is identify triggers?
These tools help you deal with your triggers, stress, and difficult thoughts or feelings.
What are coping skills?
Having things to do provides a sense of this.
What is meaning/purpose?
When ignored or unaddressed, early warning sings typically lead to this.
What is relapse?
These types of supports include support groups, hotlines, coworkers, hobby clubs, church members, etc.
What is a community support?
This is the easiest way not to experience triggers.
What is avoid?
This category of coping skills takes your mind off of the situation for a little while.
What are distractions?
Taking time to do things that I want to do: engaging in hobbies, socializing, relaxing, etc.
What is leisure?
How can having a clear understanding of your personal early warning signs help to prevent relapse?
Assist you in recognizing changes as early as possible so that you can get help quickly; enhance your ability to manage your illness; reduce the incidence of relapse; help you assume a more active role in treatment.
These types of supports include your friends and family members.
What is personal support?
What is talk about triggers?
This category of coping skills allows you to release your feelings instead of holding them in.
Making sure I prioritize myself and do the things that keep me healthy physically and mentally.
What is self-care?
This specific early warning sign involves making excuses for you behavior and ignoring concern from others/loved ones.
What is denial?
These types of supports include your doctor, psychiatrist, therapist, counselor, social worker, case manager, Butler Hospital, etc.
What is treatment support?
Some triggers cannot be avoided, however, you can engage in a healthy activity to counteract the effect of the trigger, which is known as.
What is interrupting trigger?
This type of coping skill involves seeing a skilled professional to discuss challenges and identify solutions.
What is therapy?
Taking time to complete tasks that "need" to be completed on a daily basis.
What is responsibility?
What are some common early warning signs to look out for?
What is feeling anxious/worried, tense/restless/irritable or quick to become aggressive, depressed/unhappy, unsafe/threatened, paranoid?
What types of supports are available at Butler Hospital?
What are medication management, therapists, doctors, occupational therapy group sessions?
Name 1 trigger you can identify in your life and 1 coping skill you have learned at Butler Hospital.
What is...?
Name 1 coping skill you can do if you are home and notice an early warning sign.
What is deep breathing, daily routine, positive self-talk, exercise, hobbies, listen to music, taking medications?
Name 1 coping strategy you use to provide daily structure for relapse prevention.
What is make a schedule?