Don’t focus on the colour of the walls in your house if you don’t have good foundations or you’ll be forever sorting out cracks rather than enjoying the delicate mocha.

All these messages are built from the science and understanding of what actually works to get people a long-term recovery in our clinic.

Falling off a cliff hurts. Luckily most of us don’t have to experience it. Pain can come on very much in the same abrupt manner, you’re minding your business and suddenly ‘wham’ sudden pain and like coming off most cliffs, it’s takes a lot longer to get back up then it did to get down. This cliff many of us experience.

How do we try to prevent people falling off cliffs? Well if it’s a place people frequently go we put some signs up, we might even place them in conspicuously like in a nearby carpark because we appreciate the grave consequences of what might happen. As you get nearer to the cliff edge the signs might get more stark ‘Danger of Death!’ for instance to really drive home the message. If history tells us that people still tragically go over the edge then perhaps some railing might help. Now this might all happen in a popular place but can’t happen at every cliff in the country, neither would we want it do as we’re probably there to enjoy the view of nature not railings. We learn that a cliff has to be treated with respect and some of us even form a passion mastering the cliff especially around Sheffield.

What is important to do is appreciate that there is a gentle slope that leads to each cliff edge where pain rushes in and there are clues in the lead up to it we just aren’t always sure what they are. Identifying the triggers which often happen over a period of time leading up to the cliff edge is key to help with Who’s in Control and starting a complete recovery because if we never identify why something is happening and what we can do to make it less likely how will we know what sort of signs to make to stop us accidentally going over the edge again?

The Key Takeaway:

Start to think about what often precedes things feeling worse, it might be a combination of things but just start making a note of what you did and when you have a minute see if you can find a pattern. If one thing happens in all the bad days then start to look at that one thing and see if there’s anything you can do to piece together the clues because remember We’re all Jigsaws