Even during first episodes of psychosis, some carers perceive their situation as more stressful, use less helpful coping behaviours, and are rated as high EE (Raune, Kuipers, & Bebbington, 2004).
"You might find it more helpful to focus on developing ways to cope, rather than trying to get rid of every symptom of your mental health problem".
It might help you to read about your illness and talk to other people with the same diagnosis". "You might find it more helpful to focus on developing ways to cope, rather than trying to get rid of every symptom of your mental health problem". Rachel Boyd, information manager at the charity Mind, tells me that this means being patient with yourself.
Education may be more helpful to patients with stage I cancer and their carers, and coping-skills training may be more helpful at stages II and III.
You might find it more helpful to focus on learning more about yourself and developing ways to cope, rather than trying to get rid of every symptom of your mental health problem.
In the same report, mothers of children with AS found coping strategies such as communication and consultation with family, friends, and professionals more helpful than the fathers did.
Results showed that the PRCI group rated the intervention as more helpful and suitable for the IVF/ICSI situation, more able to help women feel positive as well as better in sustaining positive reappraisal coping strategies during the waiting period.
At heart most of us are frightful of being mocked, horrified of the prospect of embarrassment and utterly unable to cope with the actualities of being embarrassed, and that means that things like the Macarena are more helpful, more genuinely useful than they initially seem.
— such social pressures can certainly be helpful coping strategies.
