EWS

- Early Warning Signs App
- The Early Warning Signs App is aimed at individuals who have experienced some form of psychosis. This is a medical term for a group of mental health problems which have certain experiences in common. Some of these experiences include hearing voices, having jumbled thoughts and having frightening or unusual ideas, sometimes called 'delusions. Examples of mental health problems which are included in this group are: Schizophrenia, Schizo-affective disorder, Manic Depression and Paranoid Psychosis.
- A quarter of people who experience psychosis will have just one episode. However, others are likely to have further episodes. When psychotic symptoms return or get worse requiring extra medication or admission to hospital, this is called a 'relapse’. Most people who have been through a psychotic episode will be fearful of relapse and the return of psychotic experiences. Although some people will try and cope with the fear by trying to forget their experience of psychosis in the hope that it will not recur, most people will be keen to prevent it from returning. This App is designed to help you to develop skills which will help to reduce or prevent the possibility of having another relapse.

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