Relapse Prevention Program
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If You Do Have Severe
Symptoms?
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Contact your support people
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Accept help
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Understand that it’s not anyone’s fault
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Even healthy people get colds
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Follow your personalized
Relapse Plan
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Be prepared to
Get Back in the Saddle
It cannot be emphasized strongly enough that people need to be aware of impending illness--not blame themselves if they become ill.
I ask participants if they got a cold last year, and again if they got one again this year: Then ask if so do they blame themselves?