Valuable Benefits of OPA
- Empower yourself and become more independent by using OPA to switch from an emotional state to a logical state of thinking.
- Using OPA's simple 4 step process allows you to identify your own feelings, organize your random thoughts, and prioritize by number the importance of your supportive thoughts for reducing your stressor.
- OPA allows you to freely take action at reducing your own stress and move forward with your own recovery.
- Reduce and manage your personal struggles, whether they be overwhelming stressors, creating daily structure, or goal setting (or all three).
- Prevent yourself from feeling overwhelmed by quickly managing multiple stressors with the simple four-step OPA process. OPA gives a disorganized and chaotic mind order and relief.
- Take action on housing, employment, medication management, symptom management, money management... to name a few.
- Assist with memory issues - use as a helpful concrete reminder for provider appointments and other time sensitive responsibilities.
- Increase proactive engagement with your treatment in the following areas: med management, eating healthy, exercising regularly, socializing, sleep hygiene, completing daily/weekly house chores.
- Increase problem solving skills.
- Achieve short and long-term goals.
- Avoid avoidance.
- OPA is easy to learn, teach others, and simple to create and use daily. Only pen and paper are needed.
- Most importantly... OPA offers hope!
