WRAP
A building block to a good WRAP plan. A List of things that help you get well and stay well
What is a wellness toolbox?
When you purposefully and deeply inhale and exhale to reduce stress in your body
What are breathing exercises?
The first appearance of the signs or symptoms of an illness
What is onset?
People with schizophrenia show less of these
What are feelings?
This is physical disadvantage/side effect of all generations of anti-psychotic drugs causing changes in your body type
What is weight gain?
Events or situations outside of yourself that make you feel badly and often cause other problems or symptoms to appear
What is a trigger?
Telling yourself motivating things and repeating words that are meant to build you up
What are positive self statements?
The identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the signs and symptoms
What is diagnosis?
The most common type of hallucination in Schizophrenia
What is auditory hallucination?
This type of medication helps relieve symptoms of hallucinations and delusions
What is anti-psychotic?
Internal subtle signs of change that show us that we may need to take further action
What are early warning signs?
When you have recurring negative thoughts and you intervene to break the pattern
What is thought blocking?
When someone was previously managing their illness well but suffered a downturn at a certain stage
What is decompensation?
Someone might lose track of what's going on in a TV show as they're watching or not be able to follow a conversations when they struggle with loosing this
What is concentration or focus?
If someone has a preference for fewer pills or has compliance issues they may be able to get their medication in this intramuscular form, usually given every two to four weeks
What is injectable medication?
This type of plan is when you lay out what you are going to do when you notice things are on a downward spiral
What is an action plan?
Tensing a group of muscles, holding in a state of extreme tension for a few seconds, and then relaxing the muscles
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
When a person's symptoms return and their functioning decreases
What is a relapse?
When talking, their words can come out jumbled and not make sense
What is disorganized speech?
Of the two groups of medication, this is the older group which generally cost less and have a greater risk of side effects
What is first generation or conventional anti psychotics?
The best way to find out what your loved one needs
What is to ask direct questions?
A mental state achieved by focusing your awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings and thoughts
What is mindfulness?
A journey of healing and transformation enabling a person with a mental health problem to live a meaningful life
What is recovery?
There are two types of symptoms in Schizophrenia
What are positive and negative?
One of the more serious side effects from long-term use of both the older and newer medications is this movement disorder which makes your facial, tongue, and neck muscles move uncontrollably and can be permanent
What is tardive dyskinesia?