Emotional Self-Reliance

Sarah shares her Recovery Journey, exploring “Wellness Tools” to overcome symptoms of mental illness, trauma and adversity to achieve fullest potential
Dec 12    

1: What is Emotional Self-Reliance?

Posted by Emotional Self-Reliance in Mental Illness, Wellness Tools, WRAP, health, brain injury, memory loss, employment, rehabilitation, learned helplessness, ECT, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Side effects, medication, psychiatry, psychiatrist, determination, stubborn, psychosis, depression, suicide, anxiety, housing, work

If your psychiatrist told you "They haven't invented the medication that will help you yet," what would you do? Join Sarah's exploration of "Wellness Tools" as she works to recover a life lost to symptoms of severe mental illness and a memory lost to psychiatric electroconvulsive therapy "shock" treatments.

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Jan 16    

6: What is a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)-Part 1

Posted by Emotional Self-Reliance in Mental Illness, Wellness Tools, WRAP, health, rehabilitation, learned helplessness, medication, psychiatry, psychiatrist, determination, psychosis, depression, anxiety, stigma, discrimination, identity, burnout, Wellness Recovery Action Plan, Treatment Plan, Mary Ellen Copeland, Preventing burnout, Triggers

On the brink of burnout? Searching for wellness tools to prevent burnout personally and professionally? Since I developed my Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) with a peer support specialist, I can recognize when I'm on the brink and have a plan in place to prevent falling over the burnout cliff. 

For more information on WRAP, check out the Copeland Center For Wellness and Recovery.

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