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Empowering
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REVIEW THE BASICS
- Are you just stepping into a caregiving role? This self-assessment
is designed especially to help new caregivers:
- assess their current understanding of six
challenging realities of mental illness, and
- take an honest look at the real impacts of
mental illness on your family and yourself.
Click on one of the "Review the Basics"
skills tests below to check your current understanding of
mental illness.
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 How
did your journey begin?
The common theme faced by everyone called
to care for a loved one with mental illness
is that it is a journey you did not choose
for yourself. It literally just 'happened
to you', often 'out of the blue.'
Ed and Jane got a phone call from their son's
college informing them that the campus police
had been called to respond after their son
terrorized his roommate with a Samurai sword,
set fire to his bed, and barricaded himself
in his dorm-room.
Lisa first heard about her husband's troubles
when the emergency room nurse called to let
her know that the police had brought him in
because he had vandalized a convenience store
during an episode of fitful rage.
How did it all begin for you? Minor disturbing
events at first followed by awful ones that were
terribly frightening? A sudden shock wave so destructive
that somebody nearly got hurt? Or did you for
a long time live with the feeling that something
was amiss and then finally got to the bottom of
it?
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