What helps?

  • GET HELP EARLY - This will help you to recover more quickly.
  • Remember to take your medication.
  • Attend appointments with the Early Intervention Team.
  • Meet and talk to others who have experienced a psychosis.
  • Talk to people you trust about your worries.
  • Get support from family and friends
  • Find out as much as you can about your psychosis, the Early Intervention Team will be able to provide you with information or visit our links page for other websites.
  • Investigate ways to manage your stress. Find out what causes your stress and work out how to deal with it or avoid stressful situations.
  • Find time in the day to relax and so something that you enjoy to take your mind off things that cause you to worry.
  • Attempt activities, jobs and training that you enjoy and value.
  • Keep physically well, following a good diet by cutting down on takeaways and fried food and eating of fruit and vegetables every day, and take regular exercise.

Remember these are just a few general tips. Everyone who develops a psychosis will find many things that are helpful and unhelpful and should look to develop lists of their own.

What doesn’t help?