Creating & Using Your WRAP Posts

Post-Crisis Planning

by Richard Hart Excerpt from WRAP Plus chapter on Post-Crisis Planning Returning to your everyday, healthy diet after a Crisis may require some assistance. A trip to the grocery store is often a task that must be undertaken the first day home. One person told me that...

Out of the Ashes

by Diane Miller I first heard about the WRAP/Wellness Recovery Action Plan at a conference.  The presenter left a contact number to obtain free booklets on the WRAP and other topics. The books were very informative in a lot of areas and it helped me put a very rough...

Mental Mountain

by Bobbie Gallion I was hospitalized in 1993, 2000, and 2003.  Each time was because of manic episodes.  Since my first visit I have had many labels, schizophrenic, bi-polar – sometimes it was bi-polar I, sometimes bi-polar II.  There have been other labels as...

April’s WRAP Story – WRAP a Way of Life

by April Elliott I am a mother of 4 children ranging in age from 7yrs. to 25 yrs. I am diagnosed with bipolar disorder, panic disorder, borderline personality disorder and severe depression. I am an active WRAP facilitator. I live my WRAP. At the age of 15 I attempted...

Awakening from Sleep: When the Mind Heals the Brain

by Richard Weingarten , M.A., CPRP “How good can a day be if it begins with getting up in the morning?” Ed Flynn, Ph.D. Getting out of bed and moving in the morning and then facing the day is a challenge for many of us, whether we have psychiatric illnesses or not....