EARLY WARNING SIGNS
SUPPORTS
TRIGGERS
COPING SKILLS
DAILY STRUCTURE
100

These are slight changes in feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that indicate an increase in illness symptoms.

What are early warning signs?


100

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?

100

You need to be able to do this in order to effectively maintain your progress and avoid relapse.

What is identify triggers?

100

These tools help you deal with your triggers, stress, and difficult thoughts or feelings.

What are coping skills?

100

Having things to do provides a sense of this.

What is meaning/purpose?

200

When ignored or unaddressed, early warning sings typically lead to this.

What is relapse?

200

These types of supports include support groups, hotlines, coworkers, hobby clubs, church members, etc.

What is a community support?

200

This is the easiest way not to experience triggers.

What is avoid?

200

This category of coping skills takes your mind off of the situation for a little while.

What are distractions?

200

Taking time to do things that I want to do: engaging in hobbies, socializing, relaxing, etc.

What is leisure?

300

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.

300

These types of supports include your friends and family members.

What is personal support?

300
Doing this helps you to better understand what is going on, reduce the power of the trigger, and decrease the impact they have on you.

What is talk about triggers?

300

This category of coping skills allows you to release your feelings instead of holding them in.

What is expressing emotions?
300

Making sure I prioritize myself and do the things that keep me healthy physically and mentally.

What is self-care?

400

This specific early warning sign involves making excuses for you behavior and ignoring concern from others/loved ones.

What is denial?

400

These types of supports include your doctor, psychiatrist, therapist, counselor, social worker, case manager, Butler Hospital, etc.

What is treatment support?

400

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?

400

This type of coping skill involves seeing a skilled professional to discuss challenges and identify solutions.

What is therapy?

400

Taking time to complete tasks that "need" to be completed on a daily basis.

What is responsibility?

500

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?

500

What types of supports are available at Butler Hospital?

What are medication management, therapists, doctors, occupational therapy group sessions?

500

Name 1 trigger you can identify in your life and 1 coping skill you have learned at Butler Hospital.

What is...?

500

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?

500

Name 1 coping strategy you use to provide daily structure for relapse prevention.

What is make a schedule?