Illness Management and Recovery / IMR-A02-2
Understanding My Experience — Practice worksheet
Separate experiences you notice, explanations offered by providers, and questions you still want answered.
15 minutes · Worksheet · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Casey wants clearer information about recurring concentration difficulties.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Learning about mental health concerns can support agency without reducing a person to a diagnosis.
1. Choose a workable example
Use the fictional example below or an ordinary situation of your choosing. Keep identifying details out of shared copies.
2. Try the practice
Separate experiences you notice, explanations offered by providers, and questions you still want answered.
3. Compare possibilities
Generate at least two interpretations or options. Mark what you know, what you are guessing, and what remains outside your control.
4. Decide together
What would you like explained in your own language? Choose one small action, a support request, or no action. Review the fit with your clinician when relevant.
Prompts for this resource
- My chosen or fictional situation, and what I know about it:
- My response to the practice task above:
- What would you like explained in your own language?
- An optional next step, support, adaptation, or reason to stop:
Conceptual background
Illness Management and Recovery Evidence-Based Practices KIT — SAMHSA
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.