It contains information, ideas, and strategies that people from all over the country have found to
be helpful in relieving and preventing troubling feelings and symptoms. The information in this
booklet can be used safely along with your other health care treatment.

You may want to read through this booklet at least once before you begin working on your own
action plans for prevention and recovery. This can help enhance your understanding of the entire
process. Then you can go back to work on each section. You may want to do this slowly,
working on a portion of it and then putting it aside and coming back to it at another time. After
you have finished developing your plan, you may want to review and revise it on a regular basis
as you learn new things about yourself and ways you can help yourself to feel better.