Yesterday afternoon I attended NAMI‘s third week Peer-to-Peer class. The curriculum we covered was:
- Mental illnesses are no-blame disorders
- Brain biology and research about mental illness
- Challenges and benefits of medications
- Relapse prevention
- Creative visualization
- Mindfulness
I feel I need to learn far more about relapse prevention. No doubt we will continue to cover that topic. As someone with bipolar disorder, I believe that I can only reduce relapses with proper self-care, but cannot entirely prevent them. I came away from the class feeling hopeful, though, so that is a good sign. I needed an ego boost and got it by participating in the class.
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