Psychosis can be a disruptive, confusing, and frightening experience. Hearing voices or thinking unusual or disturbing thoughts is common in psychosis. Having psychosis makes it difficult to figure out what is really happening and what may be a trick of the mind. Psychosis often prevents people from doing the things they used to do—such as going to work or school and enjoying time with friends and family.
The good news is that psychosis is a treatable condition.
Treatment for psychosis is provided by health professionals and involves a number of different approaches, including medication. This toolkit is not meant to be a substitute for the treatments provided by your health professionals. Instead, the toolkit is to be used along with treatment by professionals.
Dealing with Pyschosis toolkit
Learning new skills is not easy. It's important that you have somebody who can support you in the learning process. This is your Support Person. Think of who might best be able to help support you in learning these skills.
Pick someone you feel comfortable with and can trust. You may choose to have a few different people support you. Some of the skills in this toolkit will be easier to learn and practice if you have more than one Support Person.
If you don't have a Support Person, you can still use this toolkit and learn new skills. Some people who have used the toolkit alone said that they found it useful but felt it would be even better having a Support Person available.
A section of this guide is specifically for the Support Person.
Using this toolkit
There are many ways to use this toolkit. You can start in any section and work through the toolkit in any order
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About DWP
The Dealing with Psychosis Toolkit was funded by the British Columbia Ministry of Health (MoH). Fraser Health was contracted to oversee the development of the project. The Advisory Committee was co-chaired by the representatives from Fraser Health and MoH.
