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Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) 

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan is a framework with which you can  develop an effective approach to overcoming distressing symptoms, and  unhelpful behaviour patterns. It is a tool with which you can get more  control over your problems. WRAP was originally developed by Mary Ellen  Copleand and a group of mental health service users who wanted to work  on their own recovery – this is what they found worked for them. Developing your own WRAP will take time, it can be done alone, but many  find it very valuable to have a supporter – someone they trust, and work  on it together. 

As you develop your WRAP it can become a practical support for your  recovery which you refer to daily, as a reminder and guide, and also turn  to at times of difficulty. It is designed as an aid for learning about yourself, what helps and what doesn’t, and how to get progressively more  in control of your life and your experience. It also includes instructions on developing a crisis plan, as a means of guiding others on how best to make decisions for you and to take care of you, for those times when your problems and symptoms have made it very difficult for you to do this for yourself. Once you are committed to your own recovery, however things work out, they can be an opportunity for learning more about yourself, and improving your WRAP. 

A WRAP includes: developing a Wellness Toolbox, and then 

1. Evolving a daily maintenance plan 

2. Understanding triggers and what I can do about them 

3. Identifying early warning signs and an action plan 

4. Signs that things are breaking down and an action plan 5. Crisis planning 

6. Post-crisis planning 

The WRAP belongs to you, and you decide how to use it. 

You decide who to show it to, and you decide whether you want someone to work with you on it or not. You decide how much time to spend on it and when to do it.  It becomes your guide to support your own wellness and recovery.