Stage-based model useful in Schizophrenia recovery

[anon62310808]

Continuing the discussion from Five Stages of Recovery:

@notmoses

1. Denial / Pre-Contemplation. The patient does not know, cannot see, or refuses (usually out of irrational fear) to observe to notice to recognize his or her actual thoughts, emotions, sensations or behaviors.

2. Contemplation / Consideration. The patient becomes willing and open to at least looking at and thinking about his or her actual thoughts, emotions, sensations or behaviors.

3. Identification / Acceptance. The patient has looked at and thought about his or her actual thoughts, emotions, sensations or behaviors long enough to recognize, acknowledge, accept and own them.

4. Commitment / Action. The patient has become motivated enough to engage in the action of detachment and distancing from his or her actual thoughts, emotions, sensations or behaviors in favor of continuing direct observation, noticing and recognition, as well as acknowledgment, acceptance and ownership of what he or she thinks, feels, says and does.

5. Relapse Prevention / Maintenance. The patient has worked with the skills of observing to notice to recognize to acknowledge to accept to own to appreciate to understand his or her thoughts, feelings and behaviors long enough that he or she can now pick up those tools whenever his or her thoughts, feelings and behaviors are recognized, acknowledged, accepted, owned, appreciated and understood to be taking them back into their misery, depression, anxiety, mania or anger.

I am interested in James Prochaska stage-based model. Further to the original post by notmoses, I thought it would be fun to make use some examples from http://www.healthcentral.com/schizophrenia/c/120/34118/stages-change/#sthash.x2pFPHBL.dpuf to see how far we go in schizophrenia recovery.
Which stage you are at?

1. Pre-contemplative (subconsciously knowing that things have to change)
2. Contemplative (consciously examining our lives)
   I began subtly to perceive what could happen if I didn’t take the meds, as early as my first hospital stay when I looked around at the others on the ward and felt I didn’t want to spend my life revolving in and out of the hospital.
3. Preparation involves committing to educating ourselves about the illness, and making plans for the future such as working and finding a place to live.
4. Action, we do what we’ve chosen to do.
5. Maintenance we solidify and improve our recovery, using the techniques we’ve learned work for us and discarding what doesn’t. This last stage requires we act as the expert on our own recovery.

[Sara]

I am in the action stage. I am still learning all I can about my illness and what I can do to improve my life as well as putting it all into action.