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Psychosis website offers early help
March 19, 2013

A new website has been launched to help people and their families in Northern Ontario cope with psychosis.

"We believe psychosis is treatable and early intervention is the key," said Terry Bedard, support worker with the Regional Early Intervention in Psychosis Program. "Recovery is possible and that's the hope we want to give people."

To that end, the North Bay Regional Health Centre's Regional Early Intervention in Psychosis Program has launched the website, Psychosis 101, symptoms, myths and treatment.

Psychosis is a brain disorder most often experienced by young people from the ages of 16 to 35, with a first episode commonly occurring in high school or college and university students.

"We wanted to reach out to our young people in the North, and let them know there is help and hope, and we've used this website to provide some answers," Bedard said.

The site is a source of information for children, friends, parents, teachers and others who may know someone experiencing psychosis.

It includes information ranging from symptoms to how to treat psychosis, and what recovery can look like.

It features stories submitted by people who have experienced psychosis and their journey to recovery, as well as common myths about psychosis.

The Regional Early Intervention in Psychosis Program doesn't see clients, but instead provides training, support and encouragement to clinicians throughout northeastern Ontario who are linked to the program.

Symptoms of psychosis can include hearing voices, having trouble connecting thoughts together, and not connecting socially with friends and family.

The North Bay Regional Health Centre provides acute care services to North Bay and its surrounding communities, is the district referral centre providing specialist services for smaller communities and is the specialized mental health ser vice provider ser ving all of northeast Ontario.

For more information, visit Welcome to the North Bay Regional Health Centre website.
 
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